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/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
