Too Long; Didn't Read
Have you ever heard about teams being managed through metrics, like bug close rate or lines of code produced per week? And the poorest performers according to those metrics would be let go. What happens next? The team will only focus on the meaningless easy-to-fix bugs to “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ogxZxu6cjM" target="_blank">juke the stats</a>“! And in the end, the product quality becomes worse, not better, and maybe some valuable developers will have left. No wonder <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/developers" target="_blank">developers</a> don’t trust <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/productivity" target="_blank">productivity</a> metrics. “I have seriously never seen metrics used that were not dysfunctional.”