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Many Engineering Managers promote Pull Requests as part of the development process. Pull requests provide useful and actionable metrics, but following the wrong metrics cause distortions and bring more disadvantages than benefits. In this blog post, I list some metrics I consider useful, not individuals, to measure team dynamics. Here are 5 suggestions of what to measure: Pull Request Lead Time and Pull Request Size. Pull Request Request Size is the average of pull requests that are open with some work in progress. The average pull request size is the total number of lines that are added to the codebase.