Some things are easier to measure. It’s straightforward enough to find out which developer is making the most commits to a project. If you head over to the sales department you know who is closing the biggest deals. How do you measure the progress of a developer relations team?
If your job primarily involves writing, Stephanie Morillo wrote a comprehensive piece on web analytics. One of the biggest takeaways is that web analytics can tell you how your user found you, and which type of content they spend the most time on. This is useful when you are trying to build out your funnel.
Maybe you are interested in obtaining community metrics- the Orbit Model created a whole framework for measuring the impact of your meetups, conferences, and forums. Orbit measures and weights actions taken by the community. Attending a conference is worth 1 point, getting a pull request merged is 3 points.
No model is perfect, but it is important for us to at least start having the conversation of how to introduce meaningful metrics into our field.
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