[IanCal]

It is however extremely hard to measure accurately with software engineering and every easy measurement immediately draws ire from devs here.

[Cthulhu_]

Yes and no. You can measure things:

* features delivered * time-to-market (idea -> production) * code quality metrics * bugs found / bugs fixed * tickets opened / closed (and with what resolution) / month * revenue vs expenses * (if you must) commits / month, code changes / month

But few software developers seem to do that because it's overhead.