The LiveIndex blog

On software delivery, status reporting, and the ideas behind delivery intelligence.

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Work Units: how to measure delivery in terms stakeholders understand

Engineering tools track artifacts; stakeholders think in outcomes. Work Units bridge the gap. Here’s how to define them well and why they make every downstream report and forecast more useful.

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Why engineering status reports are broken, and what replaces them

Manual status reports cost senior time, go stale immediately, and rely on self-reported progress. Here’s why the model is broken and what derived, evidence-based reporting looks like.

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