The Productivity Formula
Productivity is clearly some kind of ratio; it is some kind of N:M relationship, but it's hard to know quite what the N and M are. Of all the poor ways one may define Productivity for software developers, there are some really horrible formulae including "lines of code per developer" and "story points per iteration", measures which really measure all the wrong things and which might send Charles Goodhart into a tizzy. Rather than rant more on those, let's cut to the chase and give the definition that most people really use: (what you did) ---------------------------- (what I wanted) You see, management is really not a data science. It is generally practiced as a semi-educated gut feel, because most managers in software organizations are really programmers risen through the ranks. Maybe 1/3 of them have studied computer science (judging by the popularly quoted folk-statistic that 30% of people work in the area of their college major). M...