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Replacing project managers and introducing reward/score based AI bots that keep track of progress of individuals as function of stories they are working on, and
by CodeSheikh 9y ago
Replacing project managers and introducing reward/score based AI bots that keep track of progress of individuals as function of stories they are working on, and these bots send out reminders (slack chat bots perhaps). This will can help improve productivity at large firms with multiple (and sometimes unnecessary) levels of manager hierarchies such as IBM, Dell, HP, oil companies etc. Let's be honest a certain programmer has a pattern with which he/she works. Time spent on a problem, number of initial bugs, number of commits, time spent vs difficulty of a certain problem and so forth. We have all this data to quantify and train a bot. I mean why not :)
- badosu 9y agoThis seems potentially terrifying if it's not able to understand the subtleties of what 'value' means on a project.
- rdrey 9y agoThat sounds a lot like the workflow in Dave Eggers' "The Circle". I think if you read the book you'd be less likely to implement anything like this. :P
- CodeSheikh 9y agoI have been meaning to read that book recommended by a friend working in tech. Apparently there's a movie out now too :)
- lotyrin 9y agoI really wish more quantitative analysis was done in this portion of the field, thank you.
- kentt 9y agoThat would replace less than 1% of what my PM does. But I work for a smaller company so perhaps I don't understand the use case.