Tag: Measurement
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The 5x Myth: What AI Actually Changes About Delivery Speed
A fintech CTO I work with had her board moment three months ago. The chair leaned forward mid-review and asked the question every technology executive dreads: “So you’re telling me you don’t know if this is working?” Her answer was better than most: “I’m telling you that the numbers we were using to answer that…
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The AI Productivity Paradox Has Data Now
Months ago, I wrote about the measurement problem: engineering metrics rewarding the wrong behavior after AI adoption. That post was a diagnosis based on pattern recognition across organizations, velocity climbing while delivery stayed flat, dashboards turning green while products shipped late. The data arrived. Between late 2025 and mid-2026, five independent research programs published findings…
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The Measurement Problem: When Your Metrics Reward the Wrong Behavior
Last year, I sat in a quarterly business review where an engineering director presented what he called “the best quarter in the team’s history.” Velocity was up 42%. Pull requests per developer had nearly doubled. Sprint burndowns were textbook smooth. The slides were polished, the trend lines all pointed up, and the room was nodding…
