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Don't automate what you can't first do manually. Your best developers might be helping, supporting, designing and architecting your next solution. One commit,
by edejong 8y ago
Don't automate what you can't first do manually. Your best developers might be helping, supporting, designing and architecting your next solution.
One commit, one PR, might prove more valuable for your business than hundreds of other tickets closed.
Remove the KPIs and talk to your team members in 1-on-1s regularly. Give responsibility and trust to your team, and they'll be self-empowering.
Add KPIs and you'll take away their responsibility. Trust will be lost. Probability for innovative solutions will go down, your best developers will leave.
It is all about trust and responsibility. Hire for team spirit, conscientiousness, communicative skills and diversity.
- garysahota93 8y agoAgreed! I couldn't have said it better myself. It's really hard to quantify all of this without remembering that no two metrics are interchangeable / comparable.
- closeparen 8y agoThe phase of a project with a flood of PRs and closed tickets is the easy part. The real work is done before and after (planning and debugging), in people’s heads.
- zerop 8y agoI saw this happening. Putting metrics puts pressure and people wont innovate and leave. You can't be innovative when there are metrics on your head.