Ideas / Measure the contribution

An idea to work with

Measure the contribution

An agent should connect to something the team is trying to achieve. Activity alone does not establish value.

The principle

Measure the outcome the agent contributes to, alongside quality and risk.

01

Connect to an objective

Choose a team outcome that matters to the people doing the work.

02

Establish the baseline

Measure the current process before claiming an improvement. Account for human review and cleanup.

03

Pair speed with quality

Track acceptance, errors, exceptions, and downstream outcomes. Faster wrong answers are not progress.

Take it to your team

Three questions to start with.

  1. Which team objective does this support?
  2. What does the current process cost?
  3. What quality measure prevents a misleading win?