[orky56]

Why is it ironic? The stakeholders for increased developer productivity go beyond just developers. Even the slightest increase in developer productivity, let alone the ability to objectively measure it, is the holy grail of software development. Companies with access to nearly infinite resources can and would deploy them for a marginal gain in developer productivity. So much emphasis is spent on hiring the most brilliant minds and then on managing their projects and time so why not on optimizing their output.

[anxiostial]

You are making a lot of statements here without anything to really back it up, why is it the holy grail of software development? measuring output and actually improving developer performance are not even remotely the same thing, would it not make more sense to spend time on anything related to the actual development, like training developers for example?