In this BONUS Global Agile Summit preview episode, we explore how to effectively measure and visualize the continuous improvement journey in technology organizations. Mooly Beeri shares his data-driven approach that helps software teams identify where to focus their improvement efforts and how to quantify their progress over time. We discuss practical examples from major organizations like Philips and Aptiv, revealing how visualization creates an internal language of improvement that empowers teams while giving leadership the insights needed to make strategic decisions.
Visualizing Software Development Effectiveness
“We visualize the entire SDLC end-to-end. All the aspects… we have a grading of each step in the SDLC. It starts with a focus on understanding what needs to be done better.”
Mooly shares how his approach at Philips helped create visibility across a diverse organization built from numerous acquisitions with different technologies and development cultures. The challenge was helping management understand the status of software craftsmanship across the company. His solution was developing a heat map visualization that examines the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) – from requirements gathering through deployment and support – with an effectiveness index for each stage. This creates an at-a-glance view where management can quickly identify which teams need support in specific areas like automation, code reviews, or CI/CD processes.
This visualization becomes a powerful internal language for improvement discussions, allowing focused investment decisions instead of relying on intuition or which team has the most persuasive argument. The framework creates alignment while empowering teams to determine their own improvement paths.
Measuring What Matters: The Code Review Example
“We often hear ‘we have to do code reviews, of course we do them,’ but when we talk about ‘how well are they done?’, the answer comes ‘I don’t know, we haven’t measured it.'” Continue reading Global Agile Summit Preview: How to Measure and Visualize Software Improvement for Actionable Results with Mooly Beeri
