An interesting measure to focus on is lead time throughput simply. The lead time is defined as the time it takes from someone shouts “I have an idea!” and until that ide then manifests itself as an actually working feature in the hands of the intended end-user.

For each card ask yourself the following question:

To what extent would implementing this feature or ability improve the lead time and the overall throughput of my pipeline?

The feedback is measured from one to three stars. Use the stars as follows:

The improvement can be counted in minutes.

The improvement can be counted in hours.

The improvement can be counted in days.