Strategic Innovation Capacity Value Driver
Team Capacity Freed
This metric is a valuable insight, as it plays into direct ROI and freeing up QAs/users for other more valuable work. It tracks the average monthly FTE (full-time employees) over the given date range through the usage of test automation.
This metric card shows the average release duration for the given time period (in weeks or whatever format is relevant), the maturity tier, the overall goal maturity tier 4, and a high-level insight for reporting to executive leadership.
If you navigate into the metric drilldown, you’ll see the team capacity freed over time (in FTEs), the key insights for this metric, a breakdown of each testing category the team is freed up from (based on industry averages), and steps to improve your automation efficiency in terms of bandwidth even further.
One of the key insights might include information on the % capacity per team member that has now been freed up, highlighting the additional bandwidth to focus on other higher priority tasks, additional layers of testing, and more testing opportunities earlier in the development lifecycle.
Industry averages report that 40% of that time can now be dedicated to exploratory testing, 25% to test strategy, 25% to automation improvement/refactoring/maintenance, and 10% to innovation projects or business initiatives.
New Initiatives
The goal for this metric is to track how much innovation the team is able to achieve over a given time period. Provar Quality Hub does not currently offer a native way to track project initiatives in-app. However, we’ve surfaced this metric here as a placeholder, and the data is populated from new features completed for the date range specified.
New features can be created under Test Plans > Documentation > Scope > Features.
Until valid data is populated, the placeholder metric drilldown will show data over time for initiatives being created, some key insights on innovation capacity, tier information, and generic steps to improve rollout of new initiatives. Test Automation is an enabler for many aspects of Software Development, and the ultimate goal is beyond just eliminating manual testing hours or finding bugs. It’s an enabler for more rapid development cycles, faster turn-around time for defects, and happier customers.