Tracking Swivel Metrics (Part 3)

In the spirit of self-education, we're sharing the numbers we track at Swivel.  In this post, let's look at project planning. The first two posts in the series are available here and here.

We use agile methodology to keep our projects on time and on budget.  As part of this methodology, we maintain a backlog of features for the release and estimate days of work remaining for each feature.

Tracking the following metrics gives us an instant understanding of our status.

• Working days until release - how many workdays are left before the next release.
•  Days of work until release - how much work there is estimated left to do before the next release.
• Days ahead of schedule - how many days we are ahead of or behind schedule (subtract the prior two metrics).