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Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date

Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date

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·October 15, 2025
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zinodaur

If you have the time to evaluate your metrics on a case by case basis every 18 months, you aren't collecting enough metrics

sandermvanvliet

I think this should be true for many things, or at least have a fixed future date at which you re-evaluate $thing

For example with Architecture Decision Records, put a 6 or 12 month expiry on them and evaluate to see if they can be renewed, should be changed or replaced with something that covers new insights.

Unfortunately that seems a very unpopular thing to do so I’ve never seen it work and companies end up with “we have always done it like this” type practices

abirch

I wish laws had expiry dates. For 100 years. Inertia seems to be the most powerful force

anon98356

Isn't that a big part of the issues the US has with passing a budget? Some of their tax breaks etc. have expiry dates so keep needing to be renewed. I think part of the current shutdown is related to the debate about renewing the obamacare tax breaks which have/are due to expire

drfrank2

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