Re:What is developer productivity and how to measure it?
by marcinzm on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:53PM
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Especially since the developer will likely be at a new company or team in 1-2 years.
Re:What is developer productivity and how to measure it?
by astrobe_ on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:04PM
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Because I am talking about programmers, not about mercenary-developers.
Re:What is developer productivity and how to measure it?
by jbay808 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @05:27PM
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Then what change in behaviour were you expecting your incentive scheme to result in?
Re:What is developer productivity and how to measure it?
by astrobe_ on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @01:09PM
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The "scheme" a) draws from gamification b) prevents the sometimes hostile reception of the use of metrics c) reinforces the feedback loop. Positive perception leads to positive behavior.
Re:What is developer productivity and how to measure it?
by bluefirebrand on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:55PM
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Of course. No true programmer would be motivated by reward to produce shoddy work.
In this case, you'll get your features, but they very likely won't be bug-free. They'll probably be quite slow and fragile. They might not scale. They might not be well thought-out. They might break backwards compatibility, or break other features that your customers are already using.
In other words, why wouldn't a developer borrow limitless technical debt in order to claim the bounty as fast as possible and move on to their next bounty?