“We used to measure too many damn things that did not have anything to do with the actual business value created.” Now they have a list of four: (1) how fast a team can get a new task done; (2) how many tasks a team can complete in the course of one regular work cycle (however long that is); (3) how long it takes for a task pulled out of the backlog lineup to get into production; and (4) how long a task has been sitting in the backlog, which includes pruning projects that have been made irrelevant by the passage of time.
