GitHub used to run a survey once a quarter, now it's just once per year. Why did that change? There was some management churn on the teams and people got shuffled around. The other reason is we didn't have enough bandwidth for all of them at one time.
Utsav Shah, who leads Platform at Vanta and previously led Developer Effectiveness at Dropbox, shares the story of Dropbox’s journey with measuring developer productivity. Utsav discusses what he learned about both system and survey-based measures, his opinion on the usefulness of common Git metrics, and more.