The falsifiable scorecard
A small, stable set of measures declared when a strategy is set, covering outcomes, leading indicators chosen in advance, and trends in delivery-system and organisational health. It is reviewed on a cadence, revised along with the strategy, and able to prove the strategy wrong.
Evidence grade: practice A widely adopted practitioner model with clear provenance.
Use it when
Any strategy or major investment; the board's question of whether engineering is working.
Where it stops working
It fails when it swells into a dashboard nobody reads, or when it is written after the results are in.
Where the standard uses it
- SV-5Engineering metrics and measurementChoosing, interpreting, and not gaming them, including measuring AI impact.
Used alongside it
- AI-assisted developer productivity contested
- DORA stability metrics research
- Goodhart's law practice
- The SPACE framework practice
Cite this model
Chicago, BibTeX and licence →Engineering Management Academy. (2026). The falsifiable scorecard. In Engineering Management Academy Body of Knowledge (Version 3.1, TEC.falsifiable-scorecard). https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/techniques/falsifiable-scorecard