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Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by sbov on Friday September 30, 2016 @02:54PM (#12614470)
Assuming you can even measure this. How do you arbitrarily assign value produced by a dev vs produced by marketing vs produced by company synergies (could the dev really create 1 million in value without all those other people?).

I've long felt that the best devs should be building tools for other devs. The lower in the product pipeline the better, because that's where they can affect the most people, but it seems impossible to measure when you're talking about hard numbers.

E.g. in a large enough organization, if a good dev can make all your other devs even 1% more efficient, the value they just created will blow that $1 million figure out of the water. That dev producing "$1 million dollars in value" for your product owes much of that value to the devs that are creating tools for them to use, among other things.

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Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by dikdik on Saturday October 01, 2016 @01:16AM (#12616601)
The same line of thought can be put to CEOs. How do we know a CEO was responsible for a big bump in stock prices? Maybe the marketing team hit gold this year, the developers/engineers put out something truly game changing, or the entire market is just on an upswing and the company is doing better in spite of itself.
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