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How teams use productivity metrics at LinkedIn | Max Kanat-Alexander (LinkedIn, Google)

Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

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The Role and Benefit of TPMs in Metric Review Processes

I think it's pretty universal that project managers of all types across probably all industries are trained to care about metrics. It would be very, very unusual to have a project manager who doesn't show up and say, hey, where's the numbers? Is the numbers get better? Are they getting worse? How do we know we're succeeding? What's your measurement of success? That's an activity that I expect project managers in all industries to engage in. Many engineering managers are former engineers. They rose up from being engineers. And their training didn't include how do I define metrics? How do I act on metrics?

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