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You may have heard the phrase “what gets measured gets managed.” So when we want something done, we slap a metric on it and manage toward that metric. Seems reasonable enough, right? It’s not, though.

The technology industry’s love of buzzwords is no secret. The pursuit of the “next big thing” means that every year a new spat of words enters the lexicon. Big data. The internet of things. Digital ...

Many CEOs are measuring the wrong thing in the wrong year.

Executives are laser-focused on how generative artificial intelligence can have an impact on employee output. As the chief strategy officer for a DevSecOps software company, GitLab, I spend a lot of ...

This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here. One word gets mentioned more than “jobs” and more than “skills” in the ...

Like many Americans born in the 20th century, I measure each day by my productivity. My children laugh and call me a “try-hard.” But you should try hard, I say. They laugh again. They might be smarter ...

This study has two major objectives: to present an analytically well-defined concept of productivity in higher education and to recommend empirically valid and operationally practical guidelines for ...

If you’re using software development productivity metrics to evaluate developer performance, then you’re doing it wrong. For best results, tie them to business outcomes. I cringe when development ...

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “productivity?” Probably how to do more work, right? Well, that’s not the productivity we’re talking about when it comes to marketing.

About 10 years ago, I wrote a blog post called “Can we measure developer productivity?” In it, I discussed the many objective attempts that had been made to do it — lines of code, function points, etc ...

New benchmarks show compensation rising across all specialties in 2025 even as patient visits fell in all 23 core specialties ...