As an engineering leader, one of your top priorities is improving the effectiveness and productivity of the developers on your team. The first step to managing and improving your engineering team is adopting a metric-driven approach to identifying the problem areas that threaten your team’s performance.

Successful teams keep track of their performance through a set of chosen indicators called software engineering metrics. With these metrics, engineering leaders can visualize progress, identify bottlenecks, watch for anomalous trends, and predict when something’s off before a deadline is missed.