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How To Measure the Performance of Engineering Teams
Using both qualitative and quantitative metrics
The Need for Measuring Performance
As engineering managers, you are no stranger to metrics. From lines of code to uptime, the software development industry is almost too obsessed with numbers. But when it comes to measuring the performance of an engineering team, engineering managers often get stuck.
There are two types of people, those that don’t believe in quantitive metrics and those who do. I belong to the second group. This does not mean I don’t look at qualitative feedback but quantitive metrics can tell us a lot of stories and paint a great picture if you know what to measure in the first place.
In this article, I will talk about how you could think about what metrics to measure, based on the unique situation of your team and what steps to take in not only measuring but improving the performance of your engineering team. Because the ultimate reason why you want to measure it in the first place is so you could improve on it. Just like the saying goes, you can’t improve what you don’t measure.
Types of Metrics
There are two types of metrics you should look at when it comes to measuring the success of a software…
