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> One of the main challenges when dealing with technical debt has been the lack of a way to measure it. To help overcome that problem, CISQ/OMG led the development of an Automated …

"Lines of code is a much better proxy than reported productivity." Researchers who specialize in this field largely disagree with this. Here's a round-up: https://getdx.com/blog/me…

See this previous paper: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878

"I'm a bit pessimistic that much of this research is being driven by large orgs in collaboration with researchers who aren't sufficiently independent." I'm one of the co-authors of…

Makes sense - I agree with you. My mistake on assuming you were referring to metrics like the ones I listed.

> Developer experience encompasses how developers feel about, think about, and value their work.9 In prior research, we identified more than 25 sociotechnical factors that affect D…

Agreed with this. We're working on it!

"Are there any plans to figure out objective ways to measure productivity" You can't measure developer productivity objectively, assuming you're referring to metrics like lines of …

Ever seen developers that are frustrated by technical debt and whose business leaders don't seem to care? This study is aimed to help with that.

"You could look at literally any objective measure to proxy actual productivity and be better off than this" It's fairly well-established in research (and in practice) that there i…

+1 If you read the introduction of the paper, you'll see that the aim of this paper is to give managers and developers concrete data to use to help get buy-in on investing in devel…

I'm one of the co-authors of the study. Your critique is valid though by research standards, for this type of study, our sample is sufficient. We are planning to replicate this stu…

Accelerate - this book has become an excuse for managers to spend outrageous money implementing metrics like lead time and deployment frequency to measure teams, whereas the book a…

Do you know of specific examples of companies that offer this?

It seems like companies that traditionally offered multi-tenant cloud and on-premises versions of their software are now switching to offering “private cloud” or “managed service” …

I'm a developer and am right there with you. But if you're a decades-old corporation with 10,000 engineers, you need some set of signals to help guide improvements to tools and pro…

"What should we measure to improve developer productivity?" is a decades-old problem for leaders with no clear solution. There finally seems to be some level of consensus that outp…

Shoot me an email at abinoda@getdx.com, would love to connect. Right now we're focused on interviewing people in internal-facing roles, but we're exploring doing a series that expl…