Re:Measuring an Engineering Organization
by theptip on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:56PM
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Speed == probability of survival for startups. You only have so much runway; better developer productivity means more swings of the bat at finding PMF.
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Re:Measuring an Engineering Organization
by Cardinal7167 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @05:27PM
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That isn’t what is in contention, though. The mapping of some objective metric to that speed and productivity is what I’m arguing doesn’t make sense.
What we are arguing is the Chinese room problem coupled with Goodhearts law.
The people that need to interpret the metrics might be a professional that understand their meaning, or they might be an AI following arbitrary instructions. The first group will use the metrics to create a better team, and the second will make people angry.