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Even if you couldn't measure productivity exactly, it would be astonishing if you couldn't at least slap some kind of statistical distribution shape on it based
by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
Even if you couldn't measure productivity exactly, it would be astonishing if you couldn't at least slap some kind of statistical distribution shape on it based off qualitative aspects of the work. Mathematicians have done it before.
- boxed 3y agoIt doesn't really work though. It's like measuring soccer based on goals or passes or some crazy shit. That's not how this works at all.
- khazhoux 3y agoYou’re saying there’s no conceivable way to discern which soccer players are better than others?? I don’t understand your position. Is it that all developers are equally productive, or that they do vary in productivity but it is immeasurable, an æther, with literally zero signals one could possibly mine to see how valuable a developer is to the team?
- boxed 3y agoTeam value is about bringing unique skills that can be a force multiplier. Measuring individual performance is antithetical to this very idea. Soccer is a good metaphor because it's EASY to measure/see the value a good player that does not shoot a lot of goals make. In programming this is not the case. It's certainly the case that managers that want hard numbers and don't know how to code won't be able to understand the situation at all. This is why this McKinsley nonsense is so dangerous.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoOr like modeling basketball games as random walks? https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2825 https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2825