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You're hijacking my comment to grandstand on an orthogonal point. Even if everyone has equity, if you put up metrics to measure productivity, they will be game
by dasil003 9y ago
You're hijacking my comment to grandstand on an orthogonal point.
Even if everyone has equity, if you put up metrics to measure productivity, they will be gamed, so choose carefully.
- gaius 9y agoI'm not hijacking it; I'm refuting it.
- dasil003 9y agoYou are not refuting it, you are cherry-picking one phrase of my comment which is not central to the thesis and pushing your own agenda. That bit of my comment can be completely replaced without affecting my comment but giving you no stone against which to grind your axe. Compensation is one thing, feedback on performance is another. Unless you think everything should be a cooperative with equal ownership and that will magically solve all performance problems, in which case go do that, but I will neither found a company like that nor work for one and I have two decades of experience on both sides of the table.
- gaius 9y agoHow do you game a metric which is actually "the performance of the company"? You can't without, umm, making the company perform better, which is the goal, no? It's only - as you asserted - "hard" because people try to wriggle around this truth to capture a bigger slice of the pie for themselves.
- dasil003 9y agoDude, you are willfully ignoring my point. The discussion is about metrics such as bugs fixed, features shipped, and commits pushed. The sentence you are fixated on is entirely beside the point.