> If I count lines of code added, commits, or tickets closed, I cannot compare any two developers. But if I count that metric for the same developer, or the sam

> If I count lines of code added, commits, or tickets closed, I cannot compare any two developers. But if I count that metric for the same developer, or the same team, I can certainly spot changes in productivity. No you can't. Sometimes I will be working on coding related tasks for months, and then mostly on design tasks for months. I am not more or less productive in either, but I will close a lot less tickets and write 0 lines of code when I'm doing design-related work. Same with oncall. I probably won't write much code but I can close a hundred tickets in a week. Metrics are just a stupid measure of an engineer's productivity.