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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by jimbob45 on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:43AM (#39192245)
the alternative seems to be aggressively metricize and cut

The SWE industry almost universally practices Scrum which is already pretty great for metricizing and tracking work.

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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by obscene on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:48AM (#39192323)
Do you have stats on scrum prevalence, or just anecdotal?
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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by cratermoon on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:51AM (#39192354)
It's also pretty easy for management to turn into a useless exercise of checking boxes and moving cards around. That is to say, it doesn't track actual work done in a useful way.
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