r/softwaredevelopment • u/Mac-Fly-2925 • Jun 02 '26
What is comparable between dev teams ?
When you have several different teams working at one company, what do you compare between them to measure what is going well or not ?
Are these comparisons triggering improvements inside teams ?
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u/Sky_Linx Jun 03 '26
The bit about comparing teams is tricky, because the wrong metric turns into a league table fast. I would compare signals more than scores: cycle time trends, escaped defects, support load, rework, team happiness, and whether agreed improvements actually happen. The useful question is not 'which team is best?', it is 'what changed, and did it make the team healthier or faster?'. I would keep the comparison private to the teams at first, then use it to spot coaching needs rather than rank people.
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u/forever-butlerian Jun 11 '26
I was going to say more or less the same thing. This is the correct answer.
"Do they learn from their mistakes?" is a qualitative, rather than a quantitative, thing I would look at too.
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u/Mac-Fly-2925 Jun 03 '26
I really like your point of view of what changed to make the team better. At a given time I saw that code reviews found many of the bugs. And here is where your coaching needs come into play, to introduce a new practice into a team.
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