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How Google measures developer productivity | Ciera Jaspan, Collin Green (Google)

Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

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The Problem With Reductionist Metrics for Productivity

The problem of leaders organizations kind of picking a convenient metric like commits, lines of code, pull requests, something like that. Once you measure it, people want to game itBasically. The idea is that if I just count one thing and there are human beings on the other end of it who are incentivized to look good on that single dimension,. You've also now disincentivized other types of work.

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