Metrics & Economics
What gets measured and what it costs: the DORA metrics, cost of delay and WSJF, technical debt as an economic liability — the numbers that make delivery legible to the business.
61 terms filed here — every definition a credited primary source.
- 90th percentileThe Balanced Calendar: How to Optimize Your Time
- Age of Mass ProductionProject to Product
- alignment indexProject to Product
- App TCOIs This Thing On? Instrumenting DevOps for Architecture Health, App TCO and Compliance
- average daily rate (ADR)DevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- Budget modelWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- Business valueWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- Call optionWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- capital assetsTalking Business
- change failure rateThe Balanced Calendar: How to Optimize Your Time
- Concave PayoffUnbundling the Enterprise: Glossary of Terms
- Convex PayoffUnbundling the Enterprise: Glossary of Terms
- cost centerProject to Product
- Cost of delay3 books define this
- cost performance indicator (CPI)DevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- dashboardDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- Data assetWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- debt workProject to Product: Lessons From a Year of Data Driven Flow Diagnostics
- Deployment Period2 books define this
- DORA metrics1 book · 1 talk
- Economies of ScaleMaking Work Visible, Second Edition
- Eroom's lawFast and Slow Integrated Problem Solving Structures
- flow velocity3 books define this
- Four KeysLightning Talk: A DevOps Approach to Human Optimization
- Installation Period2 books define this
- IT assetWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- Kondratiev wavesProject to Product
- Lead Time3 books define this
- Little's LawMaking Work Visible, Second Edition
- Marginal costWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- market makingDeming's Journey to Profound Knowledge
- Metered fundingWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- Non-FungibleUnbundling the Enterprise: Glossary of Terms
- NPS2 books define this
- Percent Complete and Accurate (%C&A)Flow Engineering
- Positive ExternalitiesUnbundling the Enterprise: Glossary of Terms
- primary sectorProject to Product
- production capitalProject to Product
- production elasticityOutput to Outcome
- productivity1 book · 1 talk
- quaternary sectorProject to Product
- RAG statusInvestments Unlimited
- Resource EfficiencyMaking Work Visible, Second Edition
- revenue protection work1 book · 1 talk
- schedule performance indicator (SPI)DevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- SCORPS (security, cost, OpEx, reliability, performance)The Value Flywheel Effect
- secondary sectorProject to Product
- serial optionalityOptionality & The Science of Happy Accidents
- Staged investmentsWar and Peace and IT: Glossary
- stale dependenciesA Data-Driven Look at Open Source Software Supply Chains
- Sunk Cost FallacyMaking Work Visible, Second Edition
- systems of intelligence4 Zones Model: Maximizing the Business Value of IT
- TailsWiring the Winning Organization
- technical debt4 books · 1 talk
- tertiary sectorProject to Product
- time on keyboardFurther Results of Our 500-Person GenAI and Developer Pilot
- time value of moneyOn the Care and Feeding of Feedback Cycles
- traceability indexProject to Product
- true legacyDevOps for the Modern Enterprise
- value stream metricsProject to Product
- weighted shortest job first3 books define this