
Hunting Ghosts: How to See What Developers Really Contribute
Why DORA, Jira, commits, and lines of code don’t reveal what developers really contribute—and how Git-based effort estimates can fill the gap.
Engineering effort, delivery metrics and how DevGhost measures them — written by the team building it.

Why DORA, Jira, commits, and lines of code don’t reveal what developers really contribute—and how Git-based effort estimates can fill the gap.
Commit volume is the easiest engineering metric to collect and the easiest to game. Here is what it actually measures, where it breaks, and the estimate we use in its place.