On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 2:08 PM Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:

> :) Structured data exists regarding many other subjects such as books and
> magazines. I would think that a similar approach could be taken to
> technical debt. I realize that development tasks have properties and
> interactions that change over time, but I think that having a better
> quantitative understanding of the backlog would be good and would likely
> improve the quality of planning and resourcing decisions.
>

Focusing on metrics is something bad managers tend to do when they don't
have the skills or knowledge to determine the actual value of the work.
It's a famous anti-pattern. I'll refer you to the classic Spolsky article:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/07/15/20020715/
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