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Do not measure developer productivity

Software Engineering Unlocked

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What Does Productivity Even Mean?

There's not one dimension that we can measure of productivity, right? So, like lines of code. But theyre different dimensions that you have to look at. You have to measure something around satisfaction and well being. And the final thing is efficiency and flow - do developers have minimal interruptions or delays for their work? The space framework gives a good balance between those things. I still have the feeling we are trying, you know, to measure things that are very often meaningless.

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