Tag
Measurement
What to show an executive who does not read pull requests
The gap between what engineering knows and what executives see fills with anecdote by default. What to put there instead, and the four numbers worth a slide.
How to build a leaderboard that does not create the behaviour you were avoiding
A leaderboard states what an organization values, to everyone at once. Seven design decisions decide whether it produces useful behaviour or Goodhart’s law.
DORA metrics in practice, and the three ways teams break them
The four keys measure a delivery system, not the people inside it. What each one asks, how to instrument it, and the misreadings that turn it into a target.
Measuring engineering productivity without turning it into surveillance
Most productivity tools are removed within a year, not because the numbers were wrong but because they answered a leader’s question by exposing individuals.