Software developers and management rarely have the statistics chops to create actually good metrics and data collection. Just writing everything down isn't dat

Software developers and management rarely have the statistics chops to create actually good metrics and data collection. Just writing everything down isn't data. You have to have a standardized methodology and low-ambiguity signals. You should have systems of blinding. What's your proposed metric for "productivity" for software developers? You could probably get a management prize for it.