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Developer productivity is fundamentally unoperationalizable for all meaningful ways. The desire for which is a foolish consistency ie: the hobgoblin of little m

Developer productivity is fundamentally unoperationalizable for all meaningful ways. The desire for which is a foolish consistency ie: the hobgoblin of little minds. Every one of the listed decisions can be made effectively without an operationalization[1][2] of developer productivity and the sooner a playbook of methods takes over, the better. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operationalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operationalization 2. Campbell,Norman Robert. Physics The Elements 1920 https://archive.org/details/physicstheelemen029733mbp https://archive.org/details/physicstheelemen029733mbp

akomtu 3y ago
Productivity of artists can be measured if they are reduced to wall painters. The mind of a bureocrat is like a small dusty cubicle with labelled boxes and step-by-step guides pinned to the walls. There is a lightbulb in the cubicle, but it's very dim. When he needs to manage something, he carefully picks it apart and bins it into those little boxes, and maybe updates one of his step-by-step guides. Things that don't fit into his boxes or can't be managed by a step-by-step instruction cause him a vague sense of anxiety, so he throws those things away. He loves when everything is squarish, lookalike and predictable. They don't understand creativity the same way deaf men don't understand music. But this bureocrat type is very valuable in large organizations as they keep things in order.
- boxed 3y ago
  > Productivity of artists can be measured if they are reduced to wall painters Even wall painters are surprisingly hard to measure. Painting the wall without noticing issues with the underlying preparation will cause an unhappy customer at the end. Painting the wall with the color the customer has chosen without making sure the customer realizes that the color looks WAY darker on an entire wall compared to the small sample, will also lead to an unhappy worker. It's very popular to think there are other professions that are easy to measure, and yet it's never your own productivity that can be measured. It's madness that we aren't just saying that productivity of ANY KIND is damn hard to measure!

akomtu 3y ago

Productivity of artists can be measured if they are reduced to wall painters. The mind of a bureocrat is like a small dusty cubicle with labelled boxes and step-by-step guides pinned to the walls. There is a lightbulb in the cubicle, but it's very dim. When he needs to manage something, he carefully picks it apart and bins it into those little boxes, and maybe updates one of his step-by-step guides. Things that don't fit into his boxes or can't be managed by a step-by-step instruction cause him a vague sense of anxiety, so he throws those things away. He loves when everything is squarish, lookalike and predictable. They don't understand creativity the same way deaf men don't understand music. But this bureocrat type is very valuable in large organizations as they keep things in order.

boxed 3y ago
> Productivity of artists can be measured if they are reduced to wall painters Even wall painters are surprisingly hard to measure. Painting the wall without noticing issues with the underlying preparation will cause an unhappy customer at the end. Painting the wall with the color the customer has chosen without making sure the customer realizes that the color looks WAY darker on an entire wall compared to the small sample, will also lead to an unhappy worker. It's very popular to think there are other professions that are easy to measure, and yet it's never your own productivity that can be measured. It's madness that we aren't just saying that productivity of ANY KIND is damn hard to measure!