I remember the number one feature request for the pull request metrics was to exclude non-business hours. We were also trying to build a solution that provided cur review metrics. I don't think they cared about the difference. The question from the CTO was like, can we ship code faster? There were tons of reasons that we weren't shipping code as quickly as we could.
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.