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tl;dr:A lot of engineering leaders are looking for benchmarks to understand what “good” looks like. The problem is, most benchmarks out there offer a long list of metrics and encourage spending time on areas that are already going well. In this blog post, you’ll learn how we landed on the five fundamental metrics in our benchmarks and how you should use them to drive meaningful change in your engineering organization.
tl;dr:So many developer productivity journeys start with a spreadsheet. But since such approaches rarely end well, we wrote this article to help you replace metrics-driven opportunity discovery with the goals, signals, and metrics framework.