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Improvement
8 months ago

⚙️ Improvement to developer counts for comparisons, benchmarks

Based on feedback from our community, we’ve improved our Features per Developer metric to better standardize industry benchmarks and provide better accuracy when comparing groups within your organization, such as developers using vs. not using GitHub Copilot.

As part of this update, the developer count will include contributors who created a pull request in the last 90 days. Previously, the developer count included any contributor who created or reviewed a pull request in the last 30 days.

Extending the activity window from 30 to 90 days accounts for seasonality, providing a more stable representation of your organization’s size over time. Developers who leave your organization are counted towards historical activity, but immediately removed from your developer count going forward.

Cost per feature still includes contributors who created or reviewed code in the last 90 days—to more precisely capture the costs associated with developing, reviewing, and delivering features. Development costs are calculated by multiplying a group’s cost per contributor by the count of developers and reviewers within the group.

You may notice small changes to your metrics and global benchmarks. You can read more about this change in our documentation, or feel free to reach out to us with any questions at support@software.com.

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