
Engineering Productivity Metrics: How to Measure Delivery Performance Without Gaming the System
TL;DR Engineering productivity metrics are the numbers engineering leaders use to judge delivery speed, software quality, developer experience, and business impact together, not activity alone. The DORA four keys, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery, are the industry baseline for delivery performance. The SPACE framework and newer models like DX Core 4 add developer






