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I looked at Jira stories and story points. In my direct team of 10 people, myself included, I have completed 71% of all story points in 2022, the other 9 are re
by onion2k 4y ago
I looked at Jira stories and story points. In my direct team of 10 people, myself included, I have completed 71% of all story points in 2022, the other 9 are responsible for the other 29%.
If someone on my team can do 20 1 point "fix this typo" tasks, with 20 tiny commits, in the time it takes me to complete a 5 point task that I squash into 1 commit, that doesn't mean they're 4x more productive than me despite completing 4 times points and 5 times more commits.
Points and commits are a measure of complexity more than time. If you're doing far more of them then (in general, but not necessarily true for the author) you're working on simpler tasks. If you're getting through lots of high point stories very quickly then that's a sign that you're padding your estimates too much. Story points should judge complexity relative to other stories.
Neither points nor commits are a sign of being a 10x developer. A 10x person is 10 times more effective, not 10 times more productive. When you look at someone who is generally considered a 10x dev like Fabrice Bellard or John Carmack, they're not just doing more work than their peers. They're moving the state of the art forwards, and building apps that are fundamental building blocks thousands of people use to build on top of.