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Valuestream Episode 2: Trust the Number That Hurts. The Metrics That Lie in the Agentic Era, and What to Measure Instead

Two leaders, two trusted numbers, two metrics that looked great and lied. Episode 2 of Valuestream walks the delivery metrics that were built for a pre-agentic world and quietly stopped working the moment agents started authoring code. The five-metric replacement layer for engineering (outcome latency, reviewer load, rework ratio, time to restore, production confidence) plus dependency density for programs. Full show notes, the framework, the case study, the migration plan, and the Spotify embed.