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Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
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Gergely Orosz and Kent Beck clearly lay out the challenges with measuring developer productivity and the dangers of following McKinsey's advice -
Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey, Part 2
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Part 2 of Gergely Orosz and Kent Beck's insightful articles on measuring developer productivity -
Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics
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Abi Noda provides some good guidance on selecting and reporting on engineering metrics to stakeholders -
Using Metrics to Measure Individual Developer Performance
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Laura Tacho highlights the pitfalls of using metrics to measure developer performance, and also gives some direction on overcoming these. -
OKRs are hard. But I still love them
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Camille Fournier on the pitfalls and challenges of writing OKRs that will be useful -
Measuring Engineering Efficiency at LinkedIn
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Max Kanat-Alexander gives some great insights into the pitfalls of measuring and improving developer productivity -
Cannot Measure Productivity
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Martin Fowler's reminder of the issues with measuring productivity in software development -
Don't focus on metrics
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Jonathan Hall reminds us not to forget that metrics must be used in service of a desired outcome
Recommended links about metrics
Recommended books, articles, sites, talks and podcasts about metrics.