My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools.

It’s hard to write about engineering leadership in 2020 and not mention the research from Accelerate and DORA. They provide a data-driven perspective on how to increase developer productivity, which is a pretty magical thing. Why aren’t they being used more widely?

There are three core problems I see:

The nefarious trap of using productivity measurements to evaluate rather than learn
Instrumenting productivity pipeline requires operating across so many different tools
Most instrumentation and...