Collecting metrics helps you improve or are you just delaying the real work? GTD | (0)
I normally agree with the fact that collecting metrics helps you with measuring your steps towards a goal. Tracking your progress with several checkpoints along the way and revise your plan accordingly. But as long as the metrics are simple and require no complicated work to get them. Focusing more time on thinking about the collection of the right metrics or the "ideal" metrics take you away from the job at hand: getting better. And that's easy to do. Get a bunch of IT people into a room. Give them a problem. Soon enough, somebody will raise the question: "OK, we now ...
