What Are the Things That Product Teams Care About or Want to Measure?

Max Kanat-Alexander, the Tech Lead for the Developer Productivity and Insights Team at LinkedIn, shares an inside look at LinkedIn’s metrics platform and how teams across the organization use it.

Discussion points: 

• (1:31) Why Max shares how his team is measuring productivity
• (3:20) Why some teams use metrics and some don’t 
• (6:03) The types of metrics Max’s team focuses on
• (12:59) The role of TPMs
• (17:05) How Max would measure productivity if he weren’t at LinkedIn
• (25:04) Surprises in how teams are using metrics at LinkedIn
• (31:27) The tooling required to enable metrics for teams to use
• (36:41) Qualitative versus quantitative metrics
• (40:39) Measuring code quality at Google 
• (46:16) Whether a centralized team should own measurement

Mentions and links:
Connect with Max on LinkedIn or Twitter
Read the article, Measuring Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn
Listen to the first interview with Max and his colleague Or Michael Berlowitz: Episode 23
Abi’s blog post on the Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics