For data teams
How should leadership measure my data team?
By what the work saves or changes, not by how much it produces. Tickets closed and dashboards built are easy to count and rarely show value.
A figure leadership takes seriously turns the hours lost to cleanup and workarounds into headcount and a yearly cost, the language finance already uses.
Open the FTE Debt calculator
Turn lost hours into a yearly figure. About five minutes.
What to look at first
01
Output versus outcome
Count decisions supported and hours returned to the business, not artefacts shipped.
02
The cost of rework
Hours spent rebuilding and rechecking figures are a countable cost with a payroll rate.
03
One number, labelled honestly
A first estimate with a stated confidence beats a precise number that arrives in six months.
The longer version: The KPIs most CEOs use to measure their data team are wrong