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Does anyone actually use these as continuous variables and evaluate them. I’ve worked for 10 orgs for almost 30 years and while these existed, I’ve never even h
by prepend 4y ago
Does anyone actually use these as continuous variables and evaluate them. I’ve worked for 10 orgs for almost 30 years and while these existed, I’ve never even heard someone propose to use them to measure productivity.
#commits are useful as a binary metric that a developer is alive, but trying to say one is more productive than another because they had more commits is pure madness that permeates an org so that I would detect it during an interview and avoid.
- skeeter2020 4y agoWe track all of these and publish them on a continual basis (dashboards), with the exception that we capture deployment frequency not commit frequency. They're directly if weakly correlated. but deployments is closer to what you care about. I don't think anyone is saying you should only look at the metrics and not the qualitative factors (what's in all those frequent commits?) but they definitely help drive conversations and decisions. The alternative (pure qualitative & gut feeling) is much harder to get consistent across an entire engineering department.