Almost as long as I have been working to make the lives of software engineers better, people have been asking me how to measure developer productivity. How do we tell where there are productivity problems? How do we know if a team is doing worse or better over time? How does a manager explain to senior managers how productive the developers are? And so on and so on. In general, I tended to focus on focus on code simplicity first, and put a lower priority on measuring every single thing that d...
