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If your productivity is way negative, just hire one more very, very incompetent person then.
by lightbendover 4y ago
If your productivity is way negative, just hire one more very, very incompetent person then.
- the_sleaze9 4y agoFunny, but people sum not multiply
- chaboud 4y agoWe can’t truly test the edge of this function without finding the most least competent person ever. They’re like a perfect anti-classifier! I’ve actually worked with people who were so persistently wrong that we could generally take their assertion or approach (and they’d almost always be the first to raise a finger to start dropping knowledge on us) as definitely not the right answer, thinning the search space by one option. It was actually kind of amazing. The one (seriously, one) time one was right about something, the room was stunned. That said, they did not increase productivity, so we need to search for someone more perfect…
- franciscop 4y agoSystems (set up by people) can definitely multiply. Say a well-oiled review, CI+CD, deployment system can def multiply everyone's productivity by some margin (e.g. 1.2x). So if someone improves this system, it can definitely multiply everyone's in the team's productivity.