[chris11]

On another note, what metrics could be commonly used to judge individual dev productivity, and should they be used?

I'm wondering because I have had places bring up metrics like average story points completed per sprint in performance reviews. Which kind of confused me when numbers for our team seemed to be doing fine, and it seemed like my work was going well based off of previous conversations with management.

[mangodrunk]

In my experience, using story points to judge performance is typically not useful. It is a very simplistic view. It doesn't include the quality of the code. And who knows if the estimation was accurate. And then you can have story point inflation. Also, someone may figure out an easier less complicated solution for a problem, and so that would have a smaller story point, which is better.

I would be curious in hearing how people judge dev productivity as well, it's something that I don't like to just use a number, though there may be some benefit in having that being a small part of the judgement.