Do NOT Measure Developers — Measure Projects
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Do NOT Measure Developers — Measure ProjectsA kitty that is saying “Why would you measure developers individually?”Have you ever heard about teams being managed through metrics, like bug close rate or lines of code produced per week? And the poorest performers according to those metrics would be let go. What happens next? The team will only focus on the meaningless easy-to-fix bugs to “juke the stats“! And in the end, the product quality becomes worse, not better, and maybe some valuable developers will have left. No wonder developers don’t trust #productivity metrics. “I have seriously never seen metrics used that were not dysfunctional.”In this article, I would like to debunk software development productivity metric myths. We’ll have a look at the list of:the metrics you should only use with (...)