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If ones job is to break rocks, it’s hardly bossware to track how many fractures one has committed today?

• warent 6y ago
  This is very poetic and as amusing as it is depressing
• MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  Right. If a manager has no means of gauging the progress of those they're meant to manage, they can't do any managing, pretty much by definition. From the article: > Bossware typically lives on a computer or smartphone and has privileges to access data about everything that happens on that device. It's a question of intrusiveness and granularity. Git commits are plainly not 'bossware'. It's not wise for a manager to use git commits as their sole estimator of progress, but that's another question entirely.
  • Tarq0n 6y ago
    Managers always have a means of gauging progress: asking the people doing the work.
    • MaxBarraclough 6y ago
      True enough. I should have said it's not an unreasonable thing for a manager to look at. It's not that it would be impossible to get by without management looking at git commits, and as you indicate, it's not a substitute for communication.
• koheripbal 6y ago
  Exactly. Some jobs don't produce easily trackable work product. So the only option is to track whether they're working or not.