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Measuring software engineers and teams by metrics is fraught with controversy, and rightly so. There are many horror stories of individual developer productivity being measured by Lines of Code, number of commits and other activity-based metrics. This is usually ill-advised, but it doesn’t mean that metrics don’t have a place in software engineering.

Let’s look at a small set of metrics we’ve found useful!

Software engineering metrics that matter Measuring software engineers and teams by metrics is fraught with controversy, and rightly so. There are many horror stories of individual developer productivity being measured by Lines of Code, number of commits and other activity-based metrics. This is usually ill-advised, but it doesn’t mean th...