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Software engineers are constantly investing their expertise into the product. Measurement (if any) should be on the realised gains in the short and long term,
by cromulent 2y ago
Software engineers are constantly investing their expertise into the product.
Measurement (if any) should be on the realised gains in the short and long term, not the visible investment. LOC, tickets closed, hours spent etc can all have negative payoffs.
Unfortunately that is hard to measure, as Rachel points out.
- t-writescode 2y agoThis misses "negating realized losses", which I believe is a very important area for engineers to perform in. Perhaps I am wrong.
- cromulent 2y agoI guess my point was that the value of a days work is realised later, over months or years, rather than on the day. So indeed, corrective and maintenance work have payoffs. This would also be true of managers - their work should pay off over time, so measuring it in "meetings attended" is not a good metric.