Can software leaders use metrics without damaging culture?

Re:Can software leaders use metrics without damaging culture? by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:57PM (#22243295)

> You’d never take a team wide metric like cycle time (which is a function of the whole company) and use it to evaluate a single person

In theory, yes. But in practice, I bet there are a lot of people here who have stories of a metric that was supposed to only be used team wide, but was used for evaluating an individual.

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Re:Can software leaders use metrics without damaging culture? by mvpmvh on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:30PM (#22243462)

team metrics show the team is underperforming? team lead, CTO, etc. gets canned

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Re:Can software leaders use metrics without damaging culture? by notarapper on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:00AM (#22263369)

Honestly I don't think you can avoid getting measured, even if the person measuring only does it in their head. If you feel you're doing a good job than it's best for you to measure that on your own and show proof for that instead of your boss relating on their instincts... Also if you feel you can do better than it's probably best that you understand why in order to improve that, so your boss won't have the need to let you go. Everyone's looking at the one negative side but there are tons of positives that apply to a large percentage of the worforce

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