Best Practice Report

Your Focus On Developer Productivity Is Killing You

Align The Engineering Elephant With The Rest Of Your Business

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Dec 18, 2024

Summary

Developer productivity has always been a contentious topic. Bad measures, such as the widely discredited lines of code produced, are still in use at some organizations. Managers have sought metrics that truly represent how productive an individual developer is. With the advent of AI-based developer tools, interest has increased: Executives are eager to know if they’re seeing a return on investment from the monthly subscriptions. The reality is if you’re measuring individual developer productivity, you’re measuring the wrong thing. Read this report to learn what the C-suite really wants, how you can provide it, and how to get the Engineering Elephant moving in the right direction.

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