"Are there any plans to figure out objective ways to measure productivity"
You can't measure developer productivity objectively, assuming you're referring to metrics like lines of code, number of pull requests, or velocity points which are infamous. There's broad agreement on this both within the research community as well as practitioners at leading tech companies.
You can't measure developer productivity objectively, assuming you're referring to metrics like lines of code, number of pull requests, or velocity points which are infamous. There's broad agreement on this both within the research community as well as practitioners at leading tech companies.
Here are some examples: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-develop...
"... and what distinguishes 'good devex' from 'bad devex'"
Yes to this. This is an ongoing effort - we have two previous journal papers that touch on this which may be of interest to you:
- https://getdx.com/research/devex-what-actually-drives-produc...
- https://getdx.com/research/conceptual-framework-for-develope...