Waydev - Git analytics (2018) version 1.0

If someone can explain to me how the sidebar in this page:

https://app.waydev.co/demo

And the comparison (when clicking on a user there) of how many commits A dev had on Friday two weeks ago compared to this Friday is in any way going to help a non-tech person I would be very grateful.

I'd also like to know how someone who doesn't know jack about development will be able to make sense iof John Dev A making 10 times less commits and writing 10 times less lines of code this week compared to last week.

There will be nothing worse for a non-tech manager to ask a question like "I noticed you're velocity/whatever-fancy-term-i'm-gonna-pick-as-a-non-tech-manager is down by a lot this week, care to explain why?".

Personally, if a potential client would say that it is using a tool like this, I would decline the project.

Pros:

Unclear

Cons:

This will literary destroy tech teams, frustrate devs and non-tech managers alike

Imagine a tool to measure how much your marketing people type, or how many clicks they do on social sites. Or a tool to measure how many invoices your accounting team looks at, or how many they send out. Or a time tracker to see how much time your CEO spends on "thinking about vision." At the end of the day you're purely measuring "time in chair;" you're just a pair of eyes over a shoulder, the worst version of micro-management. This is what you've made. I would say that "unfortunately" this sort of management (and by extension a product like this one) is a plague in the startup community, but the truth is that their value lies in signaling the immaturity of those that use them and believe in them to those who know that impact occurs at the customer and can only be measured back from the customer.