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Technical Metrics to Track in Engineering Orgs

8 pointsby rckrdover 1 year ago

3 comments

eureka-beliefover 1 year ago
Good list. I agree with all of them except LOC tracking. What you’re trying to accomplish should instead be handled by having excellent tech leads who can with a bird eye view assess each developers impact. This could be done on a quarterly basis. I know thats kind of subjective but if you can’t trust your leads then the team is kinda already going to have problems.
nine_zerosover 1 year ago
Nobody is asking the real questions:<p>1. Is optimizing for (some of) these metric going to lead to business outcomes? E.g. Can someone give evidence that obsessing over LOC will lead to better business outcomes? And how?<p>2. For managers that utilize these metrics to compare and stack rank, how do they account for real business outcomes? E.g. if Tom writes a bug fix with 1000 loc and Jerry writes a difficult migration with a 100 lines of configs but with immense stress in production, how does management determine what is what?
idoshover 1 year ago
Do you use any tools to track these metrics?