Notion Blog 5 Essential Software Development Metrics to Measure Team Health

All too often, software development dashboards focus only on quantitative data and performance metrics like velocity, escaped bugs, and ticket churn. We agree that these metrics are critical to your team's overall success, but there's another category of KPI that is vital to the long-term productivity of your team. Some people refer to this group of software development metrics as Team Health or Team Happiness. At Notion, we call this category of KPIs, Team Joy. The tricky part with measuring Joy is that this category by definition looks at qualitative information - the feelings of team members - which is challenging to measure in any systematic fashion. After all, a common pitfall with metrics and KPIs is to track only what is easy to measure, which inevitably tells only part of the story. So we advocate using a blend of regular team polls and other team health measurements to understand not just how your team is performing, but how they feel about their work.