If you have been in software engineering for awhile—or in fact just in the working world in general for a while—you’veprobably seen someone do something stupid with metrics. Such mistakes raise awhole bunch of interesting questions. What are the most common metricsmistakes? Why are they mistakes? Why do people make these mistakes? Are youmaking these mistakes? Why use metrics at all, when there are so many mistakes?In this talk, Rex will give real-world examples of these mistakes, explain themanagement and economic theories behind metrics, and help you find ways toimplement metrics that aren’t stupid.