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Measuring performance is very hard. Some very productive employees are great until they leave for another opportunity. Then team productivity grinds to a halt b
by humanrebar 9y ago
Measuring performance is very hard. Some very productive employees are great until they leave for another opportunity. Then team productivity grinds to a halt because they never optimized for maintainability or learnability of their code and systems.
You could blame the 10X dev. But it's fair to say that there isn't much talk about how to quantify those kinds of concerns.
- danieltillett 9y agoWell if you have not managed for the consequences of your 10x employee leaving then you have not managed very well.
- majormajor 9y ago> Measuring performance is very hard. Some very productive employees are great until they leave for another opportunity. Then team productivity grinds to a halt because they never optimized for maintainability or learnability of their code and systems. It's not that hard to see that your codebase is a mess. Even if you have no ability to judge the codebase and systems yourself, extreme case, spin that super-productive person up on an independent side project for a few weeks or months and see how the rest of the team grapples with things. There are a lot of parts of management that aren't hard, but are annoying and potentially unpleasant - if you realize this dev is much less valuable to the long term health of your systems than you thought, that could lead to difficult decisions and a tricky mentoring situation - so they get ignored because managers are either too lazy, "too nice," or just too oblivious.
- bobfunk 9y agoMake sure your people take vacations once in a while?