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A comment on Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern softw... by franze on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:34AM (#30160791)
Cause sadly KR > O

Management is by now mostly "OKR: Objective Key Result" driven.

But the performance review mostly focused on the KR as its designed for measurbility, the O is an afterthought.

Should be the other way round. Isn't. I by now quite often (when the company works with OKR but the quality that comes out product wise sucks over multiple time periods) recommend to trash the KR completely and only focus on the O.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern softw... by ProfMeowsworth on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:40AM (#30160837)
Or make quality one of your KRs.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern softw... by Macha on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:39AM (#30161258)
And then the demand for "how do we make this measurable", and it gets measured with inane shit like linter warnings, or maybe something that makes sense like bug reports but then the incentive is to start clamping down on marking things as not a bug rather than improving the software.
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