The consulting giant kicked a hornet’s nest when it launched a framework to measure software developer productivity. Here’s what engineers think they got wrong.
The debate over how to effectively measure productivity in software engineering has been going on for as long as lines of code have been written, but now, as the technology sector faces the end of an extended period of hyper growth, the demand for actionable productivity metrics feels more urgent than ever. This August, consulting giant McKinsey announced its own solution to the problem in an article titled, Yes, you can measure software developer productivity, to a, let’s say, mixed reaction.