Codermetrics: Analytics for Improving Software Teams

by Jonathan Alexander

How can you help your software team improve? This concise book introduces codermetrics, a clear and objective way to identify, analyze, and discuss the successes and failures of software engineers--not as part of a performance review, but as a way to make the team a more cohesive and productive unit.Experienced team builder Jonathan Alexander explains how codermetrics helps teams understand exactly what occurred during a project, and enables each coder to focus on specific improvements. Alexander presents a variety of simple and complex codermetrics, and teaches you how to create your own.Learn how codermetrics changes long-held assumptions and improves team dynamicsGet recommendations for integrating codermetrics into existing processesAsk the right questions to determine the type of data you need to collectUse metrics to measure individual coder skills and a team's effectiveness over timeIdentify the contributions each coder makes to the teamAnalyze the response to your software and its features--and verify that you're meeting team and organizational goalsBuild better teams, using codermetrics to make personnel adjustments and additions

Genres: Software, Nonfiction, Management, Programming

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Eugene · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book describes a lot of meaningful metrics to track in software development teams. It's great that metrics are high level and it should take around 10 extra minutes a day to track. The usefulness of described metrics is challengeable yet the ideas from the book are reasonable and worth trying. Everyone will have to define their metrics.

Jonathan Alexander uses a lot of sports analogies and references which is hard to track and relate due to my Russian background.

[Viswanath]

first cut it looks fantastic

[Ivo Stoykov · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reference style presentation of variety of codermetrics. A good summary. How to create your own.