• 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.