Can you measure developer productivity? Prompted by an article by McKinsey and already reacted to by many, we ask if McKinsey is telling us to measure something that is at all useful, how to think about the problem McKinsey raises, and what you, as a technical leader, can do to address that problem better than what McKinsey suggests.

Opening quote from The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald M. Weinberg.

References:

Mckinsey article - https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/yes-you-can-measure-software-developer-productivity
Kent Beck's response part 1 - https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity
Kent Beck's response part 2 - https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity-440
Dave Farley's response - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuUBZ1pByzM
Dan North's response - published after we recorded - https://dannorth.net/mckinsey-review/
Untangling the metrics request - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tactics-tech-leadership/episodes/Untangling-the-Metrics-Request-e27906b

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