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Re:Can developer productivity be measured? by TameAntelope on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:26AM (#25386764)
What do you think of the idea that if tickets aren't doing a good job of representing value to the customer in some form (even if it's second or third order value), those tickets are poorly written and it's a "garbage in/garbage out" situation?

It's not really a helpful observation, but I'm curious if there's a way for the relationship between "people asking for things" and "people building things" to be repeatably fruitful (IMO it's very possible that reliably producing customer value is either insanely hard and/or not doable consistently).

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Re:Can developer productivity be measured? by coldcode on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:05PM (#25388666)
Some things are incredibly important but not directly related to the customer; like services called by service called by services called by clients. It's not always easy to connect the dots especially in a micro service world. But without the ultimate service the customer can't do anything.

Making good tickets across a dozen organizations and 100's of people is hard to ever get right. Which is why counting tickets is sort of pointless, you might have a ticket to add a single value to a database and without it, the whole product doesn't work, but you have no idea since there are 10 layers between you and the real customer.

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