OKAY | Engineering productivity can be measured - just not how you'd expect

Engineering productivity is a Pandora's box. There is no magic to turn hours at a computer into amazing software. It isn't linear. Engineers are not fungible. It is much more art than science. Too often this results in a metrics desert. One of the things I like about Agile and Scrum is that it has built in some metrics around delivery that are meaningless on an absolute basis but are worthwhile to use relative to themselves. However, recent innovation in this space has brought a number of metrics that are actually meaningful, more focused on outcomes. Long gone are the days of looking at code output. I like this articles focus on looking at blockers. There are actually many metrics that teams can look at to improve overall value delivery.