Is it a good idea to measure individual developer productivity with a tool?
My friend Jiri Knesl and his team have developed a tool that tracks developers’ time and other metrics like number of commits. He claims that he wants to sell it as a tool that helps managers with decision making - he specifically mentioned (in a private conversation) “to decide who to keep and who to fire”.
Code Review Techniques Overview
Code Review in Pull Requests have become a de facto standard today. While these tool-assisted asynchronous reviews certainly improve the code quality, they come with certain costs, nicely described e.g. by Dragan Stepanovich in his article.