I recently spoke to a senior technology leader at scale-up company in the appointment bookings space. He said they had their most successful quarter because they delivered more features than they ever have before.
I think there are so many things wrong with measuring features deliver per-quarter (FPQ), but I'd like to hear the other side of the story and be proved wrong.
I also quite like how the Pluralsight developer productivity study built on our "Getting What You Measure" paper, rephrasing our common metric pitfalls as:
We tend to measure things without enough context.
We're concerned about the appearance, but not really the meaning of what we've measured.
We have not measured enough things.
We measure many things, but they do not feel related to each other.