What is an on-product index?

• A. The maximum time a product exists in market
• B. The measure of time a team spends working on the product
• C. The cycle time of code deployment
• D. The time spent on product backlog refinement

Answer: (B)

On-product index is about how much of the team’s time is spent on work that directly advances the product and delivers value to users. It tracks the proportion of effort focused on building features, improving the product, and pushing increments into users’ hands, rather than time spent on unrelated activities. This helps the team understand how much of their work is truly product-focused, which is essential for evaluating alignment with goals and value delivery.

This metric is not about how long the product stays in the market, nor about the cycle time for deploying code, nor about time spent on backlog refinement. Those are different concepts or metrics, while the on-product index specifically reflects the share of time devoted to product work.