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Developer productivity specifically and knowledge work in general is extremely hard to measure. Not only that, it is also very subjective. What is valuable to
by twawaaay 4y ago
Developer productivity specifically and knowledge work in general is extremely hard to measure.
Not only that, it is also very subjective. What is valuable to one person might be a liability to another.
Just the other day I looked at results from a developer who spun a huge mess of AWS infrastructure, microservices, lambdas and so on all to solve a very simple problem. He probably congratulated himself for a job well done.
So the success of this person would largely depend on the manager he has. For example, how much the manager values simplicity.
- ripper1138 4y agoThere are certainly managers and directors that would be mesmerized by the architecture diagram in your example, and immediately put that dev up for promo.
- twawaaay 4y agoOf course, and that is the point. How can we pay in proportion to the value a developer is creating if we can't even agree on what is valuable?