Good Will Hunting?

I appreciate your gracious attitude, I didn't mean to be demeaning with my "this guy is hilarious" comment. We all know that having concrete metrics for how to measure developers is the holy grail for managers. Most developers will tell you that the current way for managers to gauge any given individual is to ask his peers about his performance. Yep, here we are in 2013 and that's the state of the art measurement tactic. The magical dashboard (aka your backlog/scrum board/ etc) where I can go and see who the rockstars are and who the dogs are is misleading, at best. Of course, in the "real" world, revenue is the ultimate measuring stick. Doesn't quite explain why bad software makes so much money and world class software is free.

This guy is hilarious. Probably comes from a six sigma, "measure everything" background. If you've been in software for more than 15 minutes, you'd know that the major dilemma of the last 20 years is how the hell to "measure the output of the developers".