I have often considered our field a bit messy when it comes to actually measuring productivity. Obviously it is not strictly about line of codes, commits etc.
However, any estimation we may have by analyzing the metrics could still yield useful insights which is indeed better than nothing. In that regard, I can see what you guys are trying to achieve and I'm interested seeing it as a mainstream product which would also allow us to see how useful it can get when it was used more commonly. I'll be keeping an eye out for GitLab integration and ask my team to use it.
Love it! In the meantime, you can check out one of our customers who was able decrease their delivery speeds by nearly 90% and improve predictability to >95%!
The webinar link is below - pretty cool to see how teams use metrics to really enhance the way they work. Even cooler to hear how happy the engineering team was after removing all those annoying friction points in the development process :)
So, it's calmed down a bit, but here's the homepage for rakuten, the biggest ecommerce site in japan. Nothing too out line, except the very Japanese block-ads on the top of the page and running down the right side: https://www.rakuten.co.jp/
Notice the quick scrolling banner, the word "DEAL" in english sprawled everywhere (with SUPAAAAA!!! in Japanese before it) lots of different color background blocks with white/black/red text over it. Very much the "assault the senses" style of Japanese advertisement.
The watch ad, for example. "50% OFF!" "ONLY UNTIL 4/2 9:59!!!" "GET 20% POINTS BACK!" "SUPER DEAL!!!!"
Here's the relatively more calm website for book-off, the largest retailer of books in Japan. I think reading is more popular in Japan as a hobby though I don't have empirical data as evidence, just my personal observation. Maybe I only think this way because the cities are more dense. Anyway: https://www.bookoff.co.jp/ scrolling banners with many colored backgrounds and different font colors, lots of "ZERO YEN!" kind of stuff, lots of different font stylings, sizes, etc. Controlled Chaos.
Notice also the prototypical "block style" ads all down the page. We probably think of them as "grids" or "cards" in the web dev world these days but they've been doing this on japanese internet since the 90s and it harkens to Japan print ads, magazines etc.
Ah, here we go, I knew Don Quixote (or Quijote) wouldn't disappoint. Right down to the url: "donki.com" lol http://www.donki.com/ not https note
GIANT banner ads scrolling at the top, as of now we've got a black and white one, sliced through with angled images. Simple model photo after that, another one but with a very blue background, then fourth one BOOM that classic Don Quixote eye assault, complex golden background with streamers, Japanese equivalent of comic sands with tilted font in all sorts of colors and sizes, the Don Quixote... penguin? screaming at you. Scroll down for more madness.
Thanks for asking me to do this, I haven't taken a peek at Japanese ecommerce sites in a while. In-person ads have hardly changed in Japan (I was there last week for the sakura) but it's clear to me that the web design styling has calmed down remarkably. If you ever get a chance to pick up some Japanese classifieds, you can get an even better sense of what we used to deal with :)
