# Culture, Developer-Productivity, Leadership, Metrics, Engineering-Excellence

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## Why We Need to Stop Measuring (Developer) Productivity -- Part 1

DevFeed: [Why We Need to Stop Measuring (Developer) Productivity -- Part 1](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-we-need-to-stop-measuring-developer-productivity-part-1-39960.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/why-we-need-to-stop-measuring-developer-productivity-part-1/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [code productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-productivity.md>), [developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-productivity.md>)

Tags: [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [command-and-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-and-control.md>), [communication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/communication.md>), [culture-developer-productivity-leadership-metrics-engineering-excellence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture-developer-productivity-leadership-metrics-engineering-excellence.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-productivity.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [measuring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/measuring.md>), [productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/productivity.md>), [trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trust.md>)

### AI overview

This opinion argues that productivity metrics are difficult and potentially harmful when used as targets, especially under command-and-control leadership. It advocates leadership based more on trust, communication, and collaboration, and introduces concerns about measuring sales and engineering productivity.

### Source excerpt

Why We Need to Stop Measuring (Developer) Productivity -- Part 1 Leaders are obsessed with productivity metrics. This is at least true for leaders who learned to lead in the last century. The ones that follow a command-and-control or carrots-and-sticks leadership approach. They need to measure each department individually to make the right decisions top-down.