What is Throughput? | Flow Metrics Explained
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Video Description
Forget story points. Forget velocity. There's an easier way to predict the future: just count what you finish.
Throughput is the simplest flow metric - and the foundation for everything else. This video explains what it is, how to track it, and why it's more useful than all those estimation meetings you've been suffering through.
What you'll learn:
- Throughput = items crossing the finish line per week
- Why you need a clear "Done" definition
- How throughput feeds Monte Carlo simulations
- Why size doesn't matter (yes, really)
- The "wobbly" early data problem and why it goes away
Key insight: What's more empirical than counting what you actually finished? That's not an estimate. That's a fact.
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#FlowMetrics #Throughput #NoEstimates #Agile #Scrum #ProjectManagement #MonteCarlo #AzureDevOps #GitHub
0:00 What is Throughput? 0:12 Throughput: Just Count What You Finish 0:35 What Are We Counting? 1:02 What About Size? 1:13 Predict the Future 1:30 Monte Carlo Simulations 2:08 Wobbly? 2:29 www.honestcheetah.com 2:56 Thanks for Watching
Video Info
- Duration: 3:00
- Published: January 23, 2026
