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Re:Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics for Maximizing Produc... by Maximus9000 on Monday February 27, 2023 @12:23PM (#34959192)
How do you measure output of a software developer? Any measurement I've seen ([1] except the devops ones) just get gamed and become useless.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/devops/frameworks/devops-metrics

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Re:Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics for Maximizing Produc... by e12e on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:16PM (#34959938)
The irony here is that "40 hour week of 'productive' work" is also gamed/wrong...

I think, given the right culture, other measures might work well. Not perhaps for a bonus structure, but for helping employees honestly evaluate how they're doing.

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Re:Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics for Maximizing Produc... by commandlinefan on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:19PM (#34959976)
> get gamed and become useless

... and devolve into (actually measurable) number of hours in the chair.

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