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Re:Why is it so hard to measure productivity? by svsaraf on Monday September 04, 2023 @11:32AM (#37381467)
Where is the Moneyball for knowledge workers?
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Re:Why is it so hard to measure productivity? by kelseyfrog on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:49PM (#37384922)
Whats the incentive to share it? Disclosure is an alpha-erasing move.
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Re:Why is it so hard to measure productivity? by quickthrower2 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @04:41AM (#37402702)
Not always in the startup world. http://www.paulgraham.com/newideas.html
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Re:Why is it so hard to measure productivity? by nine_zeros on Monday September 04, 2023 @07:19PM (#37386135)
Oh it exists. Lines of code, number of commits, number of documents and other such BS uncorrelated with actual work.

Imagine how poor management must be to think more lines of code == more revenue.

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Re:Why is it so hard to measure productivity? by wilde on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:17AM (#37390250)
They are correlated until you admit to using them in the performance process. Then they’re far too easy to game and become useless. What we haven’t found is an adversary-resistant measure of productivity.
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Re:Why is it so hard to measure productivity? by nine_zeros on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @02:19AM (#37401858)
They are absolutely not correlated. Engineers often spend some quarters investigating and fixing scaling issues. This work does not need to a high number of locs.

If your work is merely adding some feature factory or bug fixes, maybe there is a correlation.

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