MEASURING DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY: REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Tech companies like Google and LinkedIn measure developer productivity in different ways. Common metrics in the industry that are commonly tracked as proxies for productivity are ease of delivery, experiment velocity, and the stability of services and apps. However, quantitative metrics alone can’t describe the full picture. Teams should start with defining specific goals and problems first, then pick the right quantitative and qualitative metrics for those goals.