Productivity Impact

DEFINITION

Productivity impact measures the impact of GitHub Copilot on developer productivity. It is the ratio of features per developer for developers using GitHub Copilot vs. a baseline (by default, all developers in your organization before GitHub Copilot adoption).

HOW IT’S MEASURED

Features per developer, a proxy for developer productivity, measures the average amount of new work a developer delivers over a period.

You can compare the productivity of developers using GitHub Copilot to one of three baselines:

• All developers, before adoption
• Developers using GitHub Copilot, before adoption
• Developers not using GitHub Copilot

Both the GitHub Copilot and baseline cohorts include only developers. A developer is any development team member who has created at least one pull request in the last 90 days — excluding bots.