Yes, I would track features implemented and if I was serious about the whole
thing some kind of metrics around maintenance not just development.

Cheers,

Paul.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Viktor Klang <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:07 PM, jr <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> But lets assume you are the head of an IT department, you have several
>> development teams working under you, and you want to define a set of
>> metrics that will allow you to measure the productivity of the
>> different teams (and lets assume all teams develop in the same
>> language). What approach would you take? I understand that measuring
>> lines of code is misleading, but I fail to come up with a good solid
>> alternative. One can say that the best metric is to have each team
>> lead closely monitoring the developers on her/his team, but then we
>> know that each team lead will report at her/his own convenience.
>
> Use Scrum and track velocity or use Kanban and track lead-time
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