Stripe’s 2018 report The Developer Coefficient indicates that developer inefficiency often exceeds 30%. Gitential enables you to objectively quantify software engineering team performance. Like with improving productivity, you can define where, how, and by what extent efficiency can be improved on a targeted basis. Good engineering managers always want answers to:
- How well are my engineers performing – and in which areas?
- What are their strengths and weaknesses?
- Have code reviews been helping? By how much?
With a direct line into transparent and objective team performance metrics, it becomes quite easy to identify at-risk and vulnerable team members. To put it another way you can better identify who is burned out or looking for a new job. This provides you a chance to find out why and remedy the situation, as needed. Even though there can be many contributors to inefficiency, the majority of root causes are usually tied to a handful of reasons.
Useful KPI’s: code efficiency, lead time, code complexity ration, coding hours, code volume, and commit frequency.