 Many delivery teams focus on what's in progress and what’s left to do.
Very few actively manage what's blocked. In fact, I’ve known a fair few over the years who actively skipped over the blocked items. That's not just a minor oversight, it's one of the most expensive blind spots in modern delivery systems.  It bothers me. A lot. I used to go on LinkedIn to learn something. Now all I learn is that more and more of the content is AI generated. For instance, I’ve never known humans use this symbol “—“ so much. Have 90% of the people suddenly started doing that or are all these posts I am seeing generated by the same bot?
 If your board says To Do / Doing / Done, your metrics are already compromised.
They are not just slightly off, and "good enough for now” is not good enough at all. Your metrics are actively misleading you. And before you blame your tools, this isn't a tooling problem, it's a thinking problem.  Most delivery organisations don’t lack data. In fact they swim in data.
What they lack is understanding what to do with the data. To quote Douglas Hubbard "we should care about a measurement because it informs key decisions” But it is rare to come across an organisation that understands well why they measure in the first place. |
Welcome to my blog!About the authorPlamen is an experienced Software Delivery consultant helping organisations around the world identify their path to success and follow it. 
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