Why is software development so slow and costly? There is always a stage during the lifetime of a software system where development efficiency decreases significantly. Everything feels slow and costly. Teams that previously delivered features within a couple of weeks start requesting months to complete newly prioritized features. Tension builds

McKinsey article on measuring individual software developer productivity ignited many souls in the software engineering world. This is my perspective as a long-standing software architect. If you haven’t heard yet about the McKinsey article “Yes, you can measure software developer productivity”, you must be living under a rock! In