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The more meaning you pack into a message, the harder the message is to unpack. So there's this inherent tradeoff between "easy to process" and "expressive" -- and I imagine decidin…

This is a followup essay that continues the discussion from "The Sad Graph of Software Death" .. which was discussed here a day ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10826916

Here's the followup essay, for those interested: http://tinyletter.com/programming-beyond-practices/letters/b...

This is an accumulation over the 4 month period, not a total issue count on the tracker. So... there were already many issues in the backlog before the measurement window started, …

My solution involves cutting that overhead, not adding to it. Most of the proposed fixes are ones I agree with in spirit, but implemented a little bit differently in practice.

Well, you're pretty close to having written it yourself. :-) The benefit I had in this particular project is that I was an outside consultant with full access to everyone and every…

> I would give the same kind of advice that financial advisors give for getting out of credit card debt: "find the card with the highest interest rate, make minimum payments on all…

Spot on. These were huge issues in the organization I'm describing in this essay.

You make a lot of good points, and I agree with most of them. The goal of the essay though is not to suggest that tracking issue count is a useful metric. Instead, what I'm suggest…