Tech Lead to Engineering Manager: Metrics with Vivek Kushwaha

Stepping into an Engineering Manager role fundamentally changes how you define success. You are no longer measured by the elegance of your code, but by the throughput of your entire team. The industry default is to measure this through endless calendar blocks. This playbook offers a better way.

This guide teaches you how to manage engineering teams through systemic telemetry, objective data, and automated signals. You will learn to bypass the need to extract metrics manually during check-ins, giving your team their flow state back.

Inside, you will discover how to implement DORA metrics to measure your delivery pipeline's speed and stability. You will uncover how to use Flow metrics to ensure engineering output aligns directly with business value. Furthermore, you will learn to evaluate Developer Experience (DevEx), tracking cognitive load before it leads to burnout.

The playbook culminates in a dashboard architecture strategy, showing you exactly how to aggregate signals from GitHub, Jira, and CI/CD pipelines into a single source of truth. Shift your mindset from tracking lines of code to optimizing systemic throughput.