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> Why not only for value delivered? Propose a good way to measure that. I tend to agree with you, but in so many companies, what you deliver often gets impact
by mgkimsal 9y ago
> Why not only for value delivered?
Propose a good way to measure that. I tend to agree with you, but in so many companies, what you deliver often gets impacted by so many other decisions that the final 'value' of a project is minimal, but it's because of decisions outside your control.
If people only paid me based on the value they got out of what I delivered, many would find a way to weight the measuring to leave me short. "Hollywood accounting" springs to mind - blockbuster movies somehow lose money.
- maerF0x0 9y agoJust to be clear about the discussion I am referring to the value _deliver_ not the consumption/utilization of said value. to continue the analogy When I buy an apple from safeway, I pay $1 irrespective if I eat it.
- mgkimsal 9y agoin almost all cases, what you deliver has no value on its own. it only has value in the context of business operating a certain way. to your apple analogy... you might pay $1 whether you eat it or not, but if you had no intention of eating it you wouldn't buy it in the first place. You had some expectation of doing something with it - eating it, cooking it for yourself, cooking it in some other dish to sell to others, etc.