Charity Majors • 7/7/2020

Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured?

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The article addresses a common dilemma in tech management: whether and how to measure individual software engineer productivity. It presents a manager's skepticism about reducing creative, complex work to metrics, followed by a detailed response arguing that such measurements are often harmful, gameable, and fail to capture the true value of engineering work, especially on novel problems.

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