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

Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

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How Google Measures Developer Productivity

Google has a philosophy that there is no single metric that's going to get you developer productivity. The first one that we try to work across is speed, ease, and quality. We also do diary studies and ask engineers to write down every few minutes during a day what they are doing. And so we're talking about mixed methods. It is both using multiple measures but also making sure that they're validated against each other.

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