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Failing to Measure Architecture in Human and Economic Terms
Traditional metrics miss the human cost of poor architecture. Plot releases against man-hours spent in meetings with other teams. In a well-modularized system those two numbers move in opposite directions. When feature work and meeting hours both climb, the architecture is broken no matter how clean the code looks.
When the code explodes for a small business change, the Sync Tax is already eating the margin. Vacuum Effort versus What your engineers actually had to do, both hours times the loaded hourly rate, is that measurement in money.