"Code review cycle time was not something like, I think it would have been a luxury for a leader to care about that metric given things like tech debt," he says. "Everyone liked their co-workers. Everyone kind of made sure that code reviews were happening ... everyone was upset that there wasn't enough documentation and that was slowing us down"
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.