Lenny’s Podcast95 min
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025
Nicole Forsgren · Oct 19, 2025
Key learnings
- Before measuring anything, get crisp on the problem or goal, since teams often interpret vague mandates like 'improve developer…
- Shipping smaller changes more often tends to improve both speed and stability together, because small batches have smaller blast…
- DORA's four metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, time to restore, change fail rate) give a benchmark-style view of where you…