agile-metrics

Sprint Metrics

Use this skill to extract objective metrics from sprint artifacts and generate a quantitative summary.

Language

Write the artifact in the user's language. Apply correct grammar and any required diacritics or script-specific characters. If the user's language is unclear, ask before generating output. Templates are in English — translate headers and content to match.

Project root

This skill writes artifacts at paths relative to the project root (the repo where the work happens), not the agent's current working directory.

• If invoked from inside the project, use the relative paths shown in this skill.
• If invoked from another directory (e.g., a sibling repo, or when the project lives elsewhere), prepend <project-root>/ to every artifact path.
• When the project root is ambiguous, confirm with the user via the harness question tool before writing.

Prompting

Follow the project-wide convention in CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md ("Skill Prompting Conventions"). Use the harness's structured-question tool — AskUserQuestion (Claude Code), ask_user_question (Codex), or question (OpenCode) — for the decision points below. Use free-form text only where a path/name/value cannot be enumerated.

Decision point	Why structured	Suggested options
Period	Defines the dataset	Last sprint · Last N days · Custom range
Metrics to include (multi-select)	Affects the report	Velocity · Lead time · Cycle time · Defect rate · Coverage · etc.

Free-form prompts (no structured tool):

• Custom metric definitions

No-pause mode: if the user has explicitly disabled mid-skill clarification, convert every structured prompt into an entry under Open questions (or equivalent) and proceed without blocking.

Objective

• Consolidate sprint data into concrete numbers
• Feed retro and sprint review with facts, not impressions
• Identify patterns between sprints (improvement or degradation)
• Support capacity and planning decisions

When to use

• At the end of the sprint, before review or retro
• When the team needs data to discuss performance
• To compare sprints and identify trends
• When there is doubt if declared capacity is calibrated

Collected metrics

Delivery

• Total planned stories/items
• Total delivered vs not delivered
• Completion rate (%)
• Items added during the sprint (scope creep)
• Items removed or postponed

Quality

• Bugs found during the sprint
• Bugs found after delivery
• Test coverage (if measurable)
• Lint, typecheck, or test failures at closing

Flow

• Registered blockers (quantity and average duration)
• Average time between story start and completion
• Stories that returned from "done" to "in progress"

Process

• Status checkpoints held vs expected
• Status closure reports generated
• Issues opened vs closed

Process

1. Collect data

Consult sprint artifacts:

• Sprint planning (committed items)
• Issues (opened, closed, blocked)
• Status checkpoints (blockers, progress)
• Status closure reports (executed verifications)
• Commits and PRs (volume of changes)

2. Calculate metrics

Fill the template with real numbers. Don't round to look better — precision matters more than appearance.

3. Analyze trends

If there is data from previous sprints, compare:

• Is the completion rate improving?
• Are blockers decreasing?
• Is scope creep under control?

4. Generate summary

The summary must be short enough to read in 2 minutes.

Template

Use templates/metrics.md from this skill as base.

Rules

• Metrics are reflection tools, not judgment tools. The goal is to improve the process, not evaluate people.
• Never manipulate numbers to look better. If the sprint was bad, the numbers should reflect that — and the retro should discuss why.
• Compare sprints carefully. Different contexts (vacations, external blockers, team changes) invalidate direct comparisons.
• Metrics without discussion are useless. Always present within a retro or review, never as an autonomous report.

Relationship with the flow

flowchart LR
    A["/agile-sprint"] --> B[execution]
    B --> C["/agile-status"]
    C --> D["/agile-metrics"]
    D --> E["/agile-review"]
    E --> F["/agile-retro"]

Sprint metrics feeds /agile-review and /agile-retro. Use /agile-status for tracking during the sprint.