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How do you measure productivity, better than "I know it when I see it"? Software development is one of the best studied areas for what productivity is, and the
by mandevil 2y ago
How do you measure productivity, better than "I know it when I see it"?
Software development is one of the best studied areas for what productivity is, and the thing that everyone agrees is that there are no good metrics for it. For all sorts of jobs above "tier 1 customer service (which can be measured in calls per hour)" it gets really hard to measure, and even that is very open to gaming in ways that lead to bad outcomes- e.g. the entire history of Goodhart's Law.
- silexia 2y agoLet their manager decide.
- mandevil 2y agoThe reason civil service protections exist is that when managers could fire everyone, and managers were chosen based on being the friend of the guy who just won the election, it lead to massive corruption and ineffective and hollowed out bureaucracy. This was realized by everyone 150 years ago, which is why they created civil service protections to begin with. You need a better solution to that problem, otherwise you are just repeating the mistakes of the 1870s. I'm prepared to believe that there is a better idea out there. But just going back to the 1870s, with all of its problems, for sure ain't it.
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