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I don't mean this critically but your product alarms me. I can imagine these reports being gamed and used to stack rank teams. I am trying to be more open mind
by throwaway43432 6y ago
I don't mean this critically but your product alarms me. I can imagine these reports being gamed and used to stack rank teams.
I am trying to be more open minded about your work but I can't understand how developer productivity could be measured with any of these metrics. I'm not aware of any prior work or research that shows that either. Writing software is a complex task and quantising it in this way seems reductive and problematic.
I would welcome being wrong about this. What am I missing?
- lovedev 6y agoTBH I love the skepticism here. It's important to think about metrics critically in this way to make sure we're building truly useful applications of data. We've found that evaluating individuals, stack ranking teams, and measuring an individual's 'productivity' to be an ultimately futile effort. It's more important to focus on team delivery as described in many research studies. My favorite being the book Accelerate by nicole forsgren. If you haven't, I do encourage you to check it out! As the founder of Haystack I can be seen as biased so its probably more helpful to checkout their research across thousands of teams on what makes an 'elite engineering team' and how elite engineering teams ultimately help drive successful organizations across profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction :)
- tunga123 6y agoYou are absolutely correct. I can’t believe people are using this garbage product. Who needs yet another alert on Slack? Companies and managers are going to use this against employees. Fu*k this shithole companies coming from YC and destroying livelihood. Edit: if you really got guts, let this post stand.
- dang 6y agoWe've banned this account and your other account in this thread for breaking the site guidelines. Not cool.