In light of current economic volatility, are you rethinking the way you measure software developer productivity? What changes are you considering?

In light of current economic volatility, rethinking the way we measure software developer productivity involves moving beyond outdated metrics like lines of code, integrating qualitative metrics like code maintainability, and leveraging AI tools like Copilot to enhance workflows without incentivizing burnout or gaming.

I am a big fan of downplaying individual developer metrics and focusing on team throughput.  This requires a certain kind of company culture and a high degree of trust, but it generates much better outcomes than any developer metrics I've ever seen used.  We are also pushing towards keeping as much of our developer activity on single platforms (like GitHub) rather than stitching activity across multiple tools.  Ditching Jira and going to GitHub Project is a good example.  Staying on one platform makes it much more likely that we will see embedded-AI powered gains.  "Best of breed" in SDLC tooling is dead.  Long live vendor lock-in.