[Maascamp]

If you had no KPIs and no meetings how did you know what to work on and what the company needed? Osmosis?

[jpseawell]

I’ve only ever heard of managers “working on developer KPIs” and never seen them actually defined and distributed.

[jimbokun]

KPIs are generally set on a timeframe where they usually become meaningless by the end of that timeframe. For software, goals set for a year out are almost never going to be meaningful by the end of the year.

Pick your flavor of Agile or whatever process your team can agree to, but I doubt the term "KPI" will ever come up when doing real life planning and work.

[Maascamp]

1) It's pretty clear then that you don't have much experience with planning at level beyond a few people if you've never heard the term KPI come up in software

2) Agile still comes with meetings