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Lines of code written - a useful metric of productivity?

With the recent Twitter staff layoffs and rumours of technologists being laid off based on the lines of code submitted, the question of “how should we measure developer productivity?” has risen again.

In an article with Information Age, our chief product and technology officer, Jeff Watkins, discusses whether we should be asking more pertinent questions like “should” and “how” do we measure productivity along with “who” should be measuring it. He goes on to explore why keeping code simple is important for tech industry productivity.

Read the full article here.