I was promoted as a project manager. This is a new role for me and at the beginning I find this job pretty hard.
Can you give me some example of metrics that I could use to measure the quality and productivity of my team members? I need to measure that for developers and for testers.
You can measure a lot of things
lines of code produced.
keystrokes.
coffee consumed.
trash produced.
However, that's just numerosity -- numbers for the sake of having numbers.
Before you measure your team, find out how you are measured.
Find out how your overall development organization is measured.
Find out what measurements the overall organization is trying to optimize.
Then -- and only then -- try to find a way to map the big picture goals down to your team. If you're not measuring progress toward the organization's overall goals, then you're just collecting numbers.
If you're going to collect numbers, weighing the coffee every morning may be the best indicator of work being done. Seriously.