Stop Measuring The Pizzas And The Cooks

What do pizzerias have in common with software development? Not much, right? But they do offer a useful perspective on what kind of metrics are really useful and which are likely to encourage the wrong things.

In this episode, we explore how tracking user stories, number of hours, number of hours spent is like measuring the number of pizzerias. It doesn't tell you anything about how valuable that was. Instead, focusing on these kinds of metrics encourages the accumulation of more waste (heaps of pizza to throw away).

Plus, we give you some examples out metrics that ARE useful to measure and actually encourage the removal of waste.

P.s. apologies for the chatty birds in the background. I couldn't get them to shut up :)

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The music for episodes 91 and onward was written and produced for us by Basanite. The music for episodes 1-90 was acquired through Yummy Sounds. Post-production by Jasper Huiskamp.