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Ian and Ash talk about the (mis)use of metrics, including the big four and happiness indices plus how proud Ash was of his Certified Scrum Master qualification but now bashes Scrum with everyone else.

Links

Here I Belong by Matt Hartley
Douglas Adams: How to stop worrying and learn to love the Internet
RFC 821 - Simple Mail Transport Protocol (not RFC 822, as Ian thought, which is closely related being about the format of the files containing the messages that get transmitted over SMTP). Still, not the perfect accompaniment to a discussion about Ian’s rightness.
Myth: If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It
DORA (Google DevOps Research & Assessment (Team)) Metrics
How to measure developer productivity - and how not to by Isaac Sacolick
Scrums Allegiance Website

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Metrics and Scrum Bashing

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