Show HN: Developer First Engineering Metrics Engineering metrics for developers are becoming more popular and they going in a negative direction and I want to fix this with my developer first engineering metrics. Solutions like GitPrime (now Pluralsight Flow), GitHub Insights (formerly Gitlaytics) and other similar solutions are giving non-technical people a false sense that you can easily roll up metrics to quantify developer productivity. In the "The Space of Developer Productivity" [1] that was posted on HackerNews this week, it goes into great detail to explain that there are a lot of variables at play. In the business world, business intelligence is widely accepted and business leaders do not assume business insights will come easily. People are actually hired to generate business intelligence reports and I'm hoping this type of attitude is adopted for developer insights as well. There are a lot of variables at play, and it should be expected that leaders will need to work for meaningful developer insights. Right now, I'm still early in my research, but I believe impact based metrics is something developers and leaders can get behind. Rather than repeat what I've written before in another thread, you can learn more about my thoughts on impact based metrics at https://ift.tt/3110bAY Like the saying goes, a single line change can take more work than a hundred, and that is ultimately what I want GitSense (my solution) to be able to show. If you want to play around with GitSense, you can do so at https://ift.tt/3lxN5oq and if you want to install it, you can find the instructions at https://gitsense.com [1] https://ift.tt/3bKUCwJ March 20, 2021 at 12:50AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
Comments