How you measure... Simple answer: I guess my original post was a long round-about way of saying: Bad measure: "Do I feel like a had a good day?" Better meas

How you measure... Simple answer: I guess my original post was a long round-about way of saying: Bad measure: "Do I feel like a had a good day?" Better measure: "Do I feel like I got a lot done today?" Best measure: "Do I have more valuable stuff built now than I did this morning?" Sometimes we should just use the simplest measure and leave it at that. how many hours-per-person-per-year of work I've saved other people Oddly, in my experience, this is a poor metric. Example: I wrote a sophisticated workbench to make inventory planners much more efficient. And they were. All 8 of them. Then I made a 5 minute change to enable factory supervisors sort their dispatch list 8 different ways. Which helped 800 people become more efficient. That's why I don't even try to measure "value" anymore. I let the customer worry about that. I stick with daily deltas as my best measure.