On: Engineering productivity can be measured, just not...

[michaelt]

> I prefer to measure value created and partially tie it to compensation, directly and indirectly.

How does this apply to team that maintains your source control and continuous integration systems?

[NotPavlovsDog → michaelt]

That's what you discuss in the organization.

[michaelt → NotPavlovsDog]

What were the conclusions of that discussion in your organisation?

[NotPavlovsDog → michaelt]

See my parent comment. One of the agreements we arrived at was not to have non-product-facing teams.

The teams also decided on how and who would be allocated to the tasks that could be placed as similar to what you describe.