TBH I love the skepticism here. It's important to think about metrics critically in this way to make sure we're building truly useful applications of data.
We've found that evaluating individuals, stack ranking teams, and measuring an individual's 'productivity' to be an ultimately futile effort.
It's more important to focus on team delivery as described in many research studies. My favorite being the book Accelerate by nicole forsgren. If you haven't, I do encourage you to check it out!
As the founder of Haystack I can be seen as biased so its probably more helpful to checkout their research across thousands of teams on what makes an 'elite engineering team' and how elite engineering teams ultimately help drive successful organizations across profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction :)
We've found that evaluating individuals, stack ranking teams, and measuring an individual's 'productivity' to be an ultimately futile effort.
It's more important to focus on team delivery as described in many research studies. My favorite being the book Accelerate by nicole forsgren. If you haven't, I do encourage you to check it out!
As the founder of Haystack I can be seen as biased so its probably more helpful to checkout their research across thousands of teams on what makes an 'elite engineering team' and how elite engineering teams ultimately help drive successful organizations across profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction :)