Glossary

Throughput

How many units of work, such as pull requests or tickets, a team completes in a period. This directory does not tag throughput on its own. Some flow tools report it inside delivery metrics. We do not list those tools here as if throughput were a verified column.

Why it matters to an engineering manager

Useful as a trend for a stable team and a stable definition of "done." Harmful as a target. People will cut the size of the unit until the chart looks better.

Which tools measure this

This directory does not tag this term on its own. The definition above says what we would be claiming if we did.

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