Leading and lagging indicators
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In this lesson
use early signals and late results together.
Planned topics
- Lagging: incidents, lead time, cost; they confirm results but arrive late.
- Leading: adoption rate, support questions, pilot time to first deploy; they predict.
- Use leading indicators to steer and lagging to judge.
- Check that leading indicators really predict the lagging ones.
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Demonstration
a table pairing indicators: teams on golden path (leading) with lead time to production (lagging).
Check your understanding
Which is better for steering a quarter?
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Leading indicators; lagging ones come too late.
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