Toots from 2023-07-15
“In reality, this isn’t a robot-powered factory we’re dealing with: we’re trying to quant…
“In reality, this isn’t a robot-powered factory we’re dealing with: we’re trying to quantify the value of the output of an organic, emergent, and fundamentally human system, one that is often affected by “outside” forces considered generally interruptive and immutable.”
https://rmurphey.substack.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity
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“Taking people’s desire for good outcomes for granted forces you to shift your perspective. It …
“Taking people’s desire for good outcomes for granted forces you to shift your perspective. It demands you move away from thinking that somehow more pressure toward succeeding would help. It makes you ask what aid could be given to navigate the situation better, how the context could be changed for the trade-offs to be negotiated differently next time around.”
https://www.learningfromincidents.io/posts/carrots-sticks-and-making-whings-worse
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My bet is that these envisioned savings are unlikely to materialize in favor of expectations of i…
My bet is that these envisioned savings are unlikely to materialize in favor of expectations of increased programmer output.
“Despite 23 years of “agile practices,” customer collaboration has always been shortchanged. Without engaging with customers and users, Agile quickly collapses to a set of rituals. Will freeing programmers from syntax actually yield more time to collaborate with customers and respond to change?”
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/fearing-the-wrong-thing/