I like the approach. Indeed what matters is to have visibility, don't weaponize measurement otherwise the trust will falter.

Good mulling for thought. It's always a bit challenging to nicely explain the tie between engineering metrics and how they impact the business. This is a nice starting point.

When I read the content of this article I wonder how useful the metrics really were. I mean clearly they helped the team realize which changes to bring... but the practice changes were all somewhat conventional in a way. You go a long way when you focus on quality and create the space for it.

We should definitely be more wary of metrics indeed. They help for a while, but at some point you'll necessarily get unfortunately burnt by them. The only fallback is "good judgement"... do what you can with this.

Aren't we loosing something if we focus on productivity numbers too much? A good reminder that intrinsic motivation is an important driver in people behavior. I wouldn't throw all the metrics out of the door but they'd better be a limited amount and they'd better be informative rather than objectives.

Interesting approach when managing at a distance. It tries hard to stay lightweight which is definitely welcome.

Interesting framework. I wouldn't take everything at face value, but this looks like a good source of inspiration to design your own.

Good approach for tackling it indeed. The crux of the issue is really measuring the tech debt since it's still a fuzzy concept and we have no good metrics for it.

Good starting point before really exploring this field deeper. Especially important here is the last section on how to use them properly. Be cautious, keep people well-being in mind at all time.

A good reminder that you better measure the right thing... otherwise you might consider someone as unproductive while he has in fact a large impact.

Interesting plugin for SonarQube to evaluate the footprint of a mobile application. This should complete well what exists for desktop applications and web frontends.

Interesting way to highlight Goodhart's Law. Indeed you can be corrupted by the very system you put in place if if it's mainly driven by metrics. As much as possible, think qualitative, not quantitative.

A good reminder about the impacts of Goodhart's law, or even simply of measuring the wrong thing. I like the conclusion overall: it's fine to measure things but that shouldn't be the center of the decision taking and conversations need to take a larger role into it.

Very good point of view about metrics and their use. We're unfortunately very often measuring the wrong things or using them the wrong way.

Interesting set of metrics indeed. As usual the danger lies in how/if you set targets and potentially fuzzy definitions of some of the terms.