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0 pointsdns_snek1y ago0 comments

> product speed is declining, see this chart.

How do you measure product speed in a useful manner?

I'd disqualify metrics such as number of tickets, lines of code, and "story points", because they either have an undefined relationship with product velocity (e.g. LOC per week), can vary in size too much to be useful (e.g. number of tickets per week), or they're tautological (e.g. story points per week).

What's left?

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actinium2261y ago

I've noticed no one seems to look at number of PRs per week or average length of time and MR is open. Those seems like they should be good metrics for both how well a team is collaborating and how fast they're moving (perhaps normalized by LOC in the MR, but then again smaller MRs tend to go through faster so maybe LOC is already reflected in the metric).

hiatus1y ago

I took it to mean the speed of the product, not developer velocity.

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