You may have heard the phrase “what gets measured gets managed.” So when we want something done, we slap a metric on it and manage toward that metric. Seems reasonable enough, right? It’s not, though.

AI is powerful, but it is not magic. Just because developers use AI tools does not mean outcomes will improve automatically.

Meeting productivity metrics within a law firm is vital. Employees must meet their productivity metrics for a law firm to meet its obligations. Law firms have vast obligations from payroll, rent, ...

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There is a huge problem with trying to increase productivity in functions, processes and in business teams. Measurements of productivity look at the efficiency of a task. The assumption: if companies ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You can’t possibly evaluate every team based on the same criteria. What constitutes success for a marketing team will differ vastly from ...

Agile methodology, a process that breaks down larger projects into smaller phases and focuses on constant improvement, is one of the more collaborative methods of project management. As such, ...

With the rise of AI-generated code, development teams must become smarter about how they conduct code reviews, apply security tests, and automate their testing. Imagine a world where measuring ...

Set effective employee performance goals using MBO and continuous feedback. Top HR software includes BambooHR, Paychex Flex, GoCo, and monday.com for tracking.

A survey of 500 US and UK software developers conducted by J L Partners has found that 70% of software projects fail to be delivered on time, despite 83% of developers saying delivery performance is ...

A small-business owner seeks to improve the productivity of all the functional areas of his company, but achieving greater marketing productivity is particularly important, because it produces ...

Researchers propose a new citation index that balances productivity and impact in academic publishing. The h-index of ...