On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 2:08 PM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com 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/