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Developer productivity can be an emotive, and occasionally misunderstood term.

Principal Technical Consultant, esynergy.

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For example, developers can artificially inflate their productivity by writing verbose code or overestimating story point values.

Instead, the merits of measurement lie in understanding the development teams ability to create outcomes.

This means questioning what value youre hoping to achieve by improving developer productivity.

This helps to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies and areas of potential improvement.

In turn, these can be meaningfully tracked to help businesses make the right decisions.

In doing so, new areas might be uncovered that are more urgent than those currently focused on.

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