To measure the success of Agile in engineering projects, consider the following key metrics: - Sprint Goal Success Rate: This metric tracks the percentage of sprint goals achieved, reflecting team alignment and planning effectiveness. - Velocity: Measures the amount of work completed in a sprint, helping to predict future performance. - Cycle Time and Lead Time: These metrics assess how quickly tasks are completed and delivered, indicating workflow efficiency. - Burndown Charts: Visualize remaining work versus time, aiding in progress tracking and forecasting. - Team Morale and Satisfaction: Gauging team sentiment can provide insights into overall project health and collaboration effectiveness

Going by the fundamentals, the Agile team should overcome knowledge gap to speed up the development. Hence by having a map of what's known and unknown to the team individuals, is probably the most important hidden step. Further to that Agile tools give a lot of dashboard access to understand if we are headed towards success. Waste reduction or blockers resolution in development greatly help in improving efficiency. Another hidden measure is in customer feedback, how detailed they are and how they are rating it. One more measure is to observe the meetings like sprint plan and sprint retrospectives. Most often sprint retrospectives are ignored, but careful observation will lead to an understanding of morale & inspiration that the team has.

Use Value-Based Metrics Customer Satisfaction: Gather feedback through surveys, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), or product reviews. Business Value Delivered: Track features or stories that align with key business objectives or revenue generation. Example: Use the “Feature Value Score” to prioritize and measure high-impact deliverables.

Are the sprints effective? Are the sprint blocks / iterations sufficient for the team to produce results in the set periods of time (usually iterations of two weeks or less) Measure task completion rate at the end of each sprint.