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Measuring Engineering Productivity | Off by One

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A lightweight system for measuring engineering productivity that puts the overhead on managers, not engineers—using changelogs, standups, and visibility over surveillance

Engineers love to measure things: latency, throughput, error rates. But try to measure their own work? Then metrics become the enemy. I get it. I’ve seen enough terrible systems to understand the resistance. Most systems fail, thanks to Goodhart’s Law . Measure the lines of code written, and people jack up verbosity. Measure the number of PRs, and people start dividing up their PRs. Yet, it all feels like you have to measure something . Every manager knows that some people are more productive than others. Clearly, there’s a way to ascertain productivity. And even a given individual has their e

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