[andrei_says_]

The issue is that the bean counters count beans and not creativity.

Can we think of a way to connect and individual’s creativity to money flow?

As an engineer I am most productive when I solve a business need without writing code. How can I associate my contributions with measurable profit?

[bb88]

When you write an api, add "dollars_saved", for the amount of dollars your api is currently saving the company. CFO's love that quantitative shit.

[salawat]

Y'all are looking for quantitative Quality measures. Good luck. If you aren't sitting on top of Spend informed by actual company history, you're hosed, and most places are hush hush af about that.

[nickpeterson]

Code and documentation are debts, Features divided by lines of code is a good metric.

[rocqua]

Dear god.

Once that metric becomes anything close to a target the monstrosities it would bring ae horrific!