Software Design: Tidy First?

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Trigger: you’re measuring the end of a multi-stage process but what you’re measuring doesn’t give you any guidance about what to change.

Transformation: measure something that seems correlated to success sooner in the process

Example: you’re measuring errors occurring in production, but the numbers aren’t helping you spot what to improve. Measure somethin…

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