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As I kind of expected, a lot of general statements I mostly agree with, but very light on specifics and no concrete data at all. “276% better!” does not mean an
by xnyan 3y ago
As I kind of expected, a lot of general statements I mostly agree with, but very light on specifics and no concrete data at all. “276% better!” does not mean anything without knowing how they define better.
> leaders and developers alike need to move past the outdated notion that leaders “cannot” understand the intricacies of software engineering
Leaders absolutely can understand software engineering, if time and effort to learn is spent. McKinsey themselves say this. So their argument is 1) if you learn about software engineering, you’ll be more capable of evaluating the efforts of software engineers and 2) don’t use idiotic quantifiers of productivity like LoC per day.