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Agile Reporting for Executives: What to Measure and Manage

Focusing on the wrong agile reporting metrics slows your team down. Learn which metrics to spotlight to empower your team.

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Defining Defect Rate and a Means of Calculating It

Defect rate conversation, how to start measuring defects and defect rate in software and how defects affect the product and user experience

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Software Quality: A Complete Guide to Defining and Measuring

If you identify low-quality software, how can you avoid endless discussions? Let’s look at how we should understand software quality.

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Story Points: Definition and a Note of Caution on Estimating

Story points estimation is a team activity. In this post, learn its what/how/why, besides the pitfalls you must be aware of.

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15 Software Development KPIs to Track in 2025

Track the 15 essential software development KPIs in 2025. Learn how to measure developer experience, productivity, and team performance to drive continuous...

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Story Points vs. Hours: The Relationship and the Difference

Story points vs. hours is an old dilemma. Learn more about points, why they’re better than hours, and also some pitfalls to be aware of.

How to Structure and Build an Effective Engineering Team

Collaboration between the members of an engineering team develops success. Learn how to effectively structure and build an engineering team.

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Cyclomatic Complexity explained: How it measures (and misleads) code quality

Learn what cyclomatic complexity measures, where it misleads, and how to assess code quality with better metrics for maintainability and refactoring.

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Engineering Metrics: 3 Levels of Visibility

Introduction LinearB has all sorts of engineering metrics for your software development pipeline. We can slice and dice those metrics from all kinds of angles...

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Agile Reporting for Executives: What to Measure and Manage

Defining Defect Rate and a Means of Calculating It

Software Quality: A Complete Guide to Defining and Measuring

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Story Points: Definition and a Note of Caution on Estimating

15 Software Development KPIs to Track in 2025

Story Points vs. Hours: The Relationship and the Difference

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