also if you're going to "timebox" be very very generous. If you think it takes 30 minutes, give them 5 hours and say you're being generous. I've known people w

also if you're going to "timebox" be very very generous. If you think it takes 30 minutes, give them 5 hours and say you're being generous. I've known people who program things like jet engines and stuff that goes into space. They know their stuff, are super methodical and take their damn time to do it well. Quality programming is a rarely practiced time consuming art and you'd be lucky if you have 10% of your workforce doing it. Heck, you'd be lucky if you have 1%. Those people save the ship. I'm not one of them. When you meet them, they're like a different kind of human. If you timebox them to 30 minutes, the people who write mission-critical quality code will fail to get it in on time and be filtered out. These are the people who write those 10,000 word articles that appear on HN with carefully constructed schematics, equations, and code that you struggle to understand and bookmark to study later. On the other hand, if you give people 5 hours, I assure you, the morons will still obviously be morons and you give the "True" Engineers who take their craft dead seriously a chance to shine.