What is Engineering Throughput Value and how did you establish it as a unit of measurement?

Jirka Bachel
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Founder & CEO at Navigara

Niche: SaaS
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Started: 2025

We needed a standardized unit to measure software development, so we invented Engineering Throughput Value, or ETV. We published a white paper benchmarking the open-source engineering performance of tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI. ETV allows us to measure engineering throughput at a massive scale of thousands of developers.

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