# Complementary engineering indicators

DevFeed: [Complementary engineering indicators](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/complementary-engineering-indicators-20823.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dave.cheney.net/2019/12/04/complementary-engineering-indicators>)

Author: Dave Cheney

Published: 2019-12-04T09:46:26Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Dave Cheney](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dave-cheney.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [issue tracker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/issue-tracker.md>), [Statistics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/statistics.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [issue-tracker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/issue-tracker.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [small-ideas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/small-ideas.md>), [software-delivery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-delivery.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses using complementary engineering indicators to assess software project health. It describes tracking delivery date, completeness of promised work, and defects reported, while noting that optimizing one measure can negatively affect another.

## Source excerpt

Last year I had the opportunity to watch Cat Swetel's presentation The Development Metrics You Should Use (but Don't). The information that could be gleaned from just tracking the start and finish date of work items was eye opening. If you're using an issue tracker this information is probably already (perhaps with some light data [...]