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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by nawitus on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:37PM (#16377551)
That is "coding fast". Coding fast doesn't mean literally churning out a lot of code and pull requests.
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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:18PM (#16379003)
Managers often have trouble recognizing the difference, though. Even if they know the difference, measuring actual productivity is difficult and subjective, measuring number of pull requests or number of JIRA tickets closed is easy and objective.
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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by TimTheTinker on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:23PM (#16395144)
> easy and objective.

that’s the worst kind of data - gives a meaningless feeling of objectivity.

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