A better way to measure developer productivity | A special episode with Laura Tacho and Abi Noda
Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda
The Advantages of Survey Based Metrics
The book accelerate actually goes into quite a bit of depth on advocating for survey based measurement. Oftentimes the system data is lying to us in the same ways that we fear people will lie to us in surveys. I think there is this bias against surveys as a form of measurement because of our origin as computer programmers who love this real time data from our systems. We see leading companies like Google and Microsoft were like heavily on survey based measurement for understanding their developer populations.
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