Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
by bluetwo on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:03PM
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Lloyd Shapley already figured out a "fair" way to do this, called the Shapley value.
Basically it's a thought experiment in which all team members of a project (or group, etc) estimate the impact when losing various members of the team (whose work presumably is done by other team members or contracts) on the final cost.
Run some math on the data and you have a group estimation of the relative contribution of all members.
I have a theory that the reason more managers don't use this available tool is that it would probably rate management contribution on the lower end...
Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
by sharemywin on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:56AM
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What most companies do is give bullshit senior level promotions that way they can get 5 good years out of someone before they get the same realization it took him to get to in 2 years.
There is a really great idea in there somewhere - create incentives for helping others - but I'm struggling to come up with a good way to implement it that doesn't just water everything down.
The closest I can think of is how repo commits can be counted/graphed per user. Works easily for code jockeying, but less so for softer talents like pair programming.