You lead an engineering team and want a clear way to tell whether the team is getting better over time. You want metrics that reflect delivery, quality, and operational health, without rewarding local optimization or vanity reporting.
How do you measure whether your team is improving over time?
A primary KPI that can be trended over timeA mix of leading and lagging indicatorsGuardrails so one metric cannot be improved by hurting anotherA decomposition approach for diagnosing changes