Software productivity is all but impossible to measure and insanely detrimental. We tried lines of code, story points, key process indicators, and others, but a

Software productivity is all but impossible to measure and insanely detrimental. We tried lines of code, story points, key process indicators, and others, but all they do is pervert the process into an exercise in cooperative stupidity. Without metrics, ratings are popularity contests. With metrics, ratings are popularity contests skewed by metric gaming. You cannot get rid of popularity contests. You can only ensure that you punish even more the people whose drives to work on important things is more powerful than their drives for success.