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The Developer Productivity Viper Pit: Why DevEx is Your Real EBITDA Driver
When Private Equity boards want to optimize engineering costs, they often fall into a dangerous trap: using software to measure "developer productivity" using lines of code, velocity points, or pull request wait times. In Episode 15 Paul and Dave navigate the "viper pit" of software measurement.
They break down why comparing velocity across teams is statistically meaningless, why vanity metrics invite gaming, and why automated productivity tools completely ignore essential "glue work"—the cross-team coordination and architectural alignment that keeps complex software systems standing.
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