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

Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

CHAPTER

The Human Factor in Productivity

The focus on engineering productivity for humans can lead to over-simplifying, especially knowledge worker productivity. "You can't separate out hindrances to productivity in human fluffy problems that are HR things versus hard tool problems," he says. A leaderboard is not a logical conclusion from how do we change the environment of an engineer's work space? We only share aggregated data because we want to evaluate tools and processes rather than just practices.

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