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.
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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.