Positions on how measurement goes wrong.
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The argument against per-developer measurement, the 2023 debate that made it public, and the peer-reviewed research on what monitoring does to teams.
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Seven ways a DORA dashboard produces confident, wrong numbers — and how to tell whether yours is measuring delivery or measuring your configuration.
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Most engineering metrics programmes fail quietly: the data is fine, the dashboard exists, and nobody looks at it. Why that happens and how to fix it.
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One set helps a team decide what to change this week. The other explains engineering to people outside it. Most programmes fail by trying to use one set for both.
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Efficiency is output over input. Software development has neither a stable output nor a comparable input, which is why the frame keeps producing bad decisions.
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Independent work on engineering measurement. No vendor sponsorship, no affiliate placement, no weekly cadence padded with links.