LinearB with Dan Lines
Data Archives - Software Engineering Daily
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Is Linear B a Good Performance Review Tool?
linear b is not a performance review tool. It should always be team base metric, not metrics about an individual developer. I don't advise using them for anything that has to do with engineering performance. What you need to do is put something in the hands of your developers that will actually help them on the day to day and then use metrics at the organization or a team base level.
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A developer’s core deliverables are individual commits and the pull requests they aggregate into. While the number of lines of code written alone may not be very informative, in total, the code and metadata about the code found in tracking systems present a rich dataset with great promise for analysis and productivity optimization insights.
