Killing old/slow groups - transition thinking

[Marshall Rose]

> 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