Recorded on December 5, 2024. Yegor Denisov-Blanch and I joined Jason Swett for episode 255 of the Code with Jason podcast to discuss our Stanford research on developer productivity. We explored the finding that around 9.5% of engineers in the study made minimal measured contributions, described as “ghost engineers,” and why measuring engineering output is different from measuring productivity.
The conversation covers how engineers contribute value in different ways, how personal circumstances can affect motivation, and how we use source code and Git metadata to assess engineering work. At the time of the episode, the research had collected data from more than 50,000 engineers.
Recorded on December 5, 2024. Yegor Denisov-Blanch and I joined Jason Swett for episode 255 of the Code with Jason podcast to discuss our Stanford research on developer productivity. We explored the finding that around 9.5% of engineers in the study made minimal measured contributions, described as “ghost engineers,” and why measuring engineering output is different from measuring productivity.
The conversation covers how engineers contribute value in different ways, how personal circumstances can affect motivation, and how we use source code and Git metadata to assess engineering work. At the time of the episode, the research had collected data from more than 50,000 engineers.