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A dev's thoughts on developer productivity (2022)
Developers are systems thinkers and yet, most measures of developer productivity are metrics-based, instead of systems-based. In this post, Sourcegraph co-founder and CTO Beyang Liu presents five charts that visualize what really matters for developer productivity.
In software teams, the primary factors are communication overhead, the dependency structure of the work, domain expertise, and the speed of context acquisition. Rather than invest in quality tools that improve our lives as engineers, we're compelled toward the classic Mythical Man Month fallacy that leads to more people, more code, and more problems. Huge thanks to Dan Robinson, Thorsten Ball, Stephen Gutekanst, Timothy Liu, and Nick Moore for providing feedback on this post.
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