- Features: New business value.
- Defects: Quality.
- Risks: Compliance and security.
- Technical Debts.
Flow Metrics:
- Result oriented metrics, like revenue and cost, not proxy metrics for value creation like deploys per day.
- Agile and DevOps metrics lie a layer down below the Flow FW.
Flow Distribution:
- Distribution of the four flow items is the critical metrics for aligning value streams to business strategy.
- Flow Distribution trade-off are understandable to business stakeholders that have no IT background.
Flow Velocity:
- Accelerate metrics not as important if your bottleneck is not deployment automation.