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Also - be careful of automated workflow that uses a single persons credential.. skews this by a lot.

• kevstev 7mo ago
  Once word got out that a report was going up to a department head around commit frequency, a few of us started to make "backup commits" to boost our stats. Whether it be dev server config files (just in case!), local dev setups, whatever.. just something that changed enough on its own but would produce a steady stream of commits, while having some potential use case, however unlikely it was to actually be needed. Modern problems require modern solutions and all...
  • joshstrange 7mo ago
    Been there. At a company where KPIs became all the rage they asked each department to come up with KPIs to report on. The eng/dev department pushed back a bit saying there aren't any easy KPIs to surface and anything we did would either be trivial to game and/or would result in a bunch of extra work to track (like needing to add a ton of metadata to various tickets/processes to tie it all together). They didn't care and we settled on a bunch of BS metrics that we all knew were BS and trivial to game.