We're developer productivity obsessed, worse, developer productivity METRICS obsessed. Deployment frequency! MTTR! eNPS! It's become a delightful distraction. Besides, who really benefits from this focus? This talk makes the case that we should focus more on actual craft and less on metrics.

Michael Cote studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck_ cover these topics. He's been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.