Nice article. However, the relationship is a bit more of a 2-way street than the author admits to. The mice in the maze are studying the scientist too. Meanin

Nice article. However, the relationship is a bit more of a 2-way street than the author admits to. The mice in the maze are studying the scientist too. Meaning, such a manager would have a difficult time managing devs that know what tricks the manager is using, since the metrics are now targets. Sandbagging estimates, producing verbose and pretty code, arguing against requirements, playing up requirements, etc. There are a lot of ways to make the metrics/targets play into the favor of the dev. Though a good starting place, the article spends too little time on the most important part of the relationship: Trust. Devs and managers are people. If you go to the mat for your people, and they know it, then they'll most likely go to the mat for you too. No need to hide behind these metrics/targets.