Assessing engineering teams
As engineering managers, we need to be able to accurately and consistently assess our teams. This is necessary to support and grow our engineering team’s output, but also critically important to be prepared for times when the team’s performance comes into question by others. When your stakeholders or company leadership question your team’s performance, having a deep understanding of your performance trends and the data to support that will make your job much easier. Instead of reacting with uncertainty, maintain a working knowledge of team performance.
Assessing engineering teams comprehensively is hard to do. We may have gut feelings, the opinions of outside stakeholders, or raw measures such as lines of code written, but each of these can turn out to be poor indicators of team performance. In the search for an understanding of team performance, it is easy to go down the wrong path and arrive at the wrong conclusions. To avoid this...
