World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

Metrics Handle with Care: The Paradox of Measuring Team Performance

You get exactly what you measure. Tracking individual numbers breeds disjointed individuals, not cohesive teams. Discover how to leverage product-level data that drives true user value.

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Rethinking how teams measure developer productivity

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Avoiding harmful team comparisons and metric incentivization

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Overcoming review fatigue and measuring true engineering productivity

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