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The team, the team lead and the executives need different slices of the same truth - what each audience should actually see, the numbers I put in front of a boardroom, and dashboard principles that skip the red-amber-green pantomime.
Why no single metric captures developer productivity - the SPACE framework's five dimensions in plain terms, the measure-at-least-three rule, and what I do about the two dimensions no dashboard can hold.
Dashboards go green while codebases rot - the opener of a fourteen-part series on measuring code quality and software delivery without staging the theatre that ruins both.
The honest retrospective on two weighted competency frameworks - the blank templates at their centre, the qualities no weight can hold, the situations where a weighted model is the wrong tool, and what I would build differently.
Most competency models fail the same way - everything matters equally, so nothing does. The case for a two-level weighting system, and a first look at the two mirrored frameworks this series unpacks.
