So there we were, at an agile conference. Well, not at the conference exactly. But at a bar very near to an agile conference.

A few patrons were talking agile stuff - like they do. And someone, as evidence in support of their stance that all metrics are evil, used the “But the Scrum Guide”, defense.

“But the Scrum Guide doesn’t prescribe any metrics. As a matter of fact, the word metric is not in the Scrum Guide. Not once.”

I found this claim dubious, so I checked it out.

It is true, the word metric...