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In our company the _measured_ productivity is higher since we WFH.
by Dutchie987 2y ago
In our company the _measured_ productivity is higher since we WFH.
- fire_lake 2y agoNot convinced that productivity can be measured for most SWE work.
- pineaux 2y agoIt is sort of measurable. How many lines you output, how many bugs are in your code, how much time is spent fixing your bugs. Etc. I mean its far from perfect and leadership roles are harder to measure (but can be measured by how the people under them think about them). But still I get your point.
- fire_lake 2y agoI think the best we can do is have an expert familiar with the task and codebase evaluate contributions. Trouble is, this can be corrupted by all sorts of internal politicking.
- postalrat 2y agoPeople have been trying to measure productivity for many years. If you found a good method you should publish it.
- Dutchie987 2y agoWe still do Agile Scrum, and our velocity has gone up significantly. Experienced team, mature code base, no real external forces to skew these figures. Goodhart's Law does not apply, as we have done this for many years and are happy [1] with the way we do things. [1] for some value of happy