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Re:Agile as Trauma by mbrodersen on Saturday October 16, 2021 @07:10PM (#28892403)
It is quite easy to predict the competency of a software development company: simply take # developers directly involved in developing products and divide by # managers at all levels. The higher the value the more competent the company.
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Re:Agile as Trauma by corpMaverick on Saturday October 16, 2021 @07:58PM (#28892700)
Interesting idea. I would change it like this.

#developers / #non-developers

Where non-developers are people involved in the project who don't actually write code. (e.g. resource managers, analysts, project managers, QA, product owners, product managers, leads, architects, SRE, etc)

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Re:Agile as Trauma by mbrodersen on Saturday October 16, 2021 @08:24PM (#28892846)
I think it’s important to make a distinction between non-developers who can reduce developer productivity and those who can’t. Which is why I mentioned managers. But other than that yep good point.
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