Software Engineer KPIs: Good, Bad, or Just Unintended Consequences?

  • I really like that paper's emphasis on overall throughput. KPIs used this way are effective. Measure what matters.

    Too often you get in a game of setting up metrics silos for everyone to operate independently, and there are non-linear, emergent effects to this silo behavior.

    You have to keep you head up and pay attention to how the system is actually behaving. POSIWID.

    > make sure at a minimum that the measures are not encouraging local optimums

    Pretty much sums it up for me.