Understanding Efficiency vs. Effectiveness for new Scrum Masters
💡 Understand Efficiency vs. Effectiveness to kick-start your growth!
📖 Efficiency is the ability to complete tasks within a specific timeframe, using the least amount of resources possible.
🔢 Metrics for measuring Effectiveness:
🔵 Velocity
🔴 Burnup and burndown charts
⚫ Output per unit of time
⚪ Cost efficiency
🤬 Outcomes of focus on Efficiency:
↘ Focusing on output over outcomes
↘ Ignoring customer needs
↘ Overworking team members
↘ Lack of collaboration
↘ Short-term focus
📖 Effectiveness is the ability to achieve the desired outcomes and deliver value to customers, using resources efficiently.
🔢 Metrics for measuring effectiveness:
🔵 Lead Time
🔴 Cycle Time
⚫ Defect Rates
⚪ Collaboration metrics (e.g., team morale, communication frequency)
😍 Outcomes of focus on Effectiveness:
🔥 Delivering value to customers
🔥 Achieving desired outcomes
🔥 Collaborative teamwork
🔥 Sustainable success
🔥 Continuous improvement
📌 Examples of efficiency vs effectiveness:
🤬 Efficiency: A child can complete a puzzle quickly by placing the pieces in the wrong spots.
😍 Effectiveness: A child can complete a puzzle correctly, even if it takes longer.
🤬 Efficiency: Eating candy for every meal is a quick way to get energy, but not healthy for your body.
😍 Effectiveness: Eating a balanced diet provides the right nutrients for your body to grow and stay healthy.
🤬 Efficiency: A student can memorize a textbook in a short time, but may not fully understand the content.
😍 Effectiveness: A student can take time to understand and apply the textbook content, resulting in better knowledge retention.
🤬 Efficiency: Writing code quickly may meet a deadline, but may result in technical debt and future maintenance issues.
😍 Effectiveness: Writing well-designed, maintainable code results in fewer bugs and easier future development.