A Practical Guide to Agile Part 4: Practices and Measurement — From XP to Velocity · DORA
A framework alone doesn't produce good software. Why XP's engineering practices (TDD, CI, refactoring, pairing) are the technical heart of Agile, why adopting the process but skipping the practices makes it collapse, and what to measure and how — story points, velocity, #NoEstimates, the DORA four metrics — including why measurement breaks when it becomes a KPI (Goodhart's Law). Part 4 of an Agile series.