Toots from 2023-02-28#
“It’s only a config change”#
“It’s only a config change”
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@darkuncle Agreed - excellent article#
@darkuncle Agreed - excellent article
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“Although there is no general-purpose measurement that can be used in any situation focused on…#
“Although there is no general-purpose measurement that can be used in any situation
focused on developer productivity, it is still possible to make data-driven improvements
to a software engineering workflow. Given a specific research question, it is possible to
break measurements down into a specific context and know what the caveats are.”
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_2
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“The tech industry suffers from a deep association of work with individual productive toil, and…#
“The tech industry suffers from a deep association of work with individual productive toil, and that just isn’t what knowledge work is. In addition to being social, knowledge work is also uncertain and messy. Moreover, it’s hard to make knowledge production happen reliably. There are better and worse ways, but in general, meaning-making argues with agendas and likes to break through timeboxes.“
https://medium.com/@ElizAyer/meetings-are-the-work-9e429dde6aa3
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“What does all of this mean for measuring productivity? It means you’re not going to find one m…#
“What does all of this mean for measuring productivity? It means you’re not going to find one measure for everything. Individuals, teams, organizations, and markets need their own metrics because the factors that affect performance at each of these levels are too complex to reduce to a single measure.”
https://paperpile.com/app/p/5a970dc0-7337-02e5-8655-c85072eaeb06