What would be a good set of key performance indicators for engineering projects and teams? We’re usually accustomed to see KPIs in a business context, and more used by sales, marketing, product squads. But I believe that the exercise of figuring out KPIs is very important. We’re talking about measuring our performance with simple numbers. Is that possible at all? If we do figure it out, we’d have some kind of software development metrics dashboard. That would have value by itself. We could see were we’re at, we’re we going and the impact or correlation between KPIs, But it’s very difficult to measure productivity in software engineering teams. Having the work mostly being creative makes the modeling it as numbers pretty tricky. We may look to KPIs that only reflect volume, but neglect to consider added value. The typical lines of code metric comes to mind.
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