Killing old/slow groups - transition thinking
Marshall Rose
mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:16:16 -0800
> While the statement Marshall makes is probably technically correct, it is
> also misleading. As many of the effective efforts to produce quality
> determined, if you start by looking at what you can measure, you will
> almost always get the wrong answer.
> Instead, you need to start by determining what matters,
> and then determine how to measure it.
>
> My largest concern with the PACT document is that it has focussed on what
> we already know how to measure (time in working groups, time in the IESG)
> instead of what we care about (which I would roughly describe as the
> composite efficacy including a sufficiently high quality result in a
> sufficiently timely fashion.) Getting agreement on what matters is
> hard. Figuring out how to measure that is hard. But focusing on what we
> know how to measure is a serious mistake.
i agree. in fact, it's almost as much of a mistake as not bothering with
measurement at all...
/mtr