A quick skim and I agree. However...! Them things that are most valuable are often[0] least quantifiable. Sure "Technical managers who build trust" is probably

A quick skim and I agree. However...! Them things that are most valuable are often[0] least quantifiable. Sure "Technical managers who build trust" is probably completely unquantifiable but if you work for people who are willing to mess up your work, it's very bad indeed. I worked at a place that used source control (we all do now) but oh hell, the boss could not help pissing about weekly with the project's aims, growing it every time, no clear direction, etc. It's a bit like code comments then, the value of which can be indisputable. Perhaps require 33% of your code to have comments? Seems like a metric! Now how valuable is that when enforced? Some programmers will do little more than paste code lipsum. We want quality comments - and now we're back to subjective. The best stuff is. [0] That needs some thinking about which I haven't done.