How we use tennis rankings for fixing bugs

Re:How we use tennis rankings for fixing bugs by lucaronin on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @01:26PM (#24710540)

Many jobs have very precise performance metrics — just think of sales.

I believe metrics are not good or bad per se, it just depends how you use them.

Of course you may use numbers to treat developers like children. But you may use them also to understand problems and find ways to improve, individually or all together as a team.

I don't think the solution is not to measure things at all :)

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Re:How we use tennis rankings for fixing bugs by nafey on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @02:52PM (#24711361)

I think the issue is not that someone's output is being measured it's that the chosen metric is not matching the devs own conception of the value that they bring to the table. For example management might start tracking LoC per Dev and this will lead to discontentment for all the correct reasons.

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Re:How we use tennis rankings for fixing bugs by pseudalopex on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @02:14PM (#24711015)

Who said not to measure things at all?

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