Re:Ask HN: How do you measure eng team productivity?
by flavianh on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:19AM
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That’s very interesting, what is the score based on?
Re:Ask HN: How do you measure eng team productivity?
by sirobg on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:55AM
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It was supposed to represent "how big" the feature was.
As it's subjective and vague, the score was suggested by the engineer in charge of the feature and then (rapidly) approved by the team during daily meetings.
But I guess this principle could be applied with a score representing whatever you want to track, and however you want to track it.
By doing that, it was fairly easy to give a relevant score to each feature.
Engineering team was doing this to measure solely engineering productivity, but product team could do this as well to measure added value to the company.
By tracking the start/end date as well for each feature, you can then measure productivity at any time scale you want.