Subtle point, possibly, but: > It’s important to note, though, that the throughput metric applies to teams. An individual does not complete a certain number of

Subtle point, possibly, but: > It’s important to note, though, that the throughput metric applies to teams. An individual does not complete a certain number of points per week. This is an important distinction, because you don’t want your developers to feel judged by the system, or to try to game it by engineering the tickets they take on. This is true, but it's not the main reason to treat the team as the unit of delivery. It's because total team delivery isn't the sum of individual delivery: to treat it like that would be to miss the incidental sideways contributions all the team members have on each others' tickets. If you're doing it right, your most capable people might have very low individual throughputs because they're lifting everyone else up.