There’s an unhealthy obsession with companies looking for a way to measure developer productivity. Over the last 20 years, I’ve led multidisciplinary technology teams across some of Australia’s ...

Developer productivity has become one of the hardest topics for engineering leaders to measure well. The old signals are no longer enough. Commit volume, ticket counts, pull request totals, and lines ...

Productivity is essential to a successful career because it allows workers to accomplish more in less time and improves job satisfaction. It enables workers to increase their focus, set better goals, ...

Despite the enormous acceleration GenAI brings to many engineering tasks, many organizations still struggle to measure ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Vibe coding hit 90% developer adoption in 2026 and a METR study found it makes experienced developers 19% slower. Here is ...

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The Tackling the software skills crunch study from Freeform Dynamics recently found that a fifth of organisations consider their development tools, processes and methods not fit for purpose. A further ...

Imagine the prospect of the first day in a new job as a software developer. Beyond the meetings with HR, managers and team leaders, there is also likely to be a stack of training material and ...

About 10 years ago, I wrote a blog post called “Can we measure developer productivity?” In it, I discussed the many objective attempts that had been made to do it — lines of code, function points, etc ...