Making simple. Whoever wants measure a developer, don't know anything about development work. Good amount of work is in their mind until it brings the solution. If it is a simple change... maybe is double in some sense.... but things that brings value comes from developers mind/brain... Your points are good too!!
Numbers are just a way to represent measurements. Without numbers you can still measure. But without measuring your previous X, how do you know if you’re getting better at it or not? I may have not fully understood your comment.
@@OutOfDevOps It is this stupid mantra about managing only being possible with metrics that turns a lot of otherwise intelligent human beings in management positions into draconian game masters that want to incentivize you the creative on a micro level to do the right thing. They don't know anything real but they know that there is some correlation between output and success so the output needs to be bigger and faster. Add to that the generic management approach that thinks domain knowledge is irrelevant and you could put a cockroach in charge as it has the same objective function of maximizing some gain short term that feels right instead of the human planning, conceptualizing, remembering stuff and winning in the long run over all other animals.
I see what you mean, I have read stories about customers loyalty metrics improving by simply hiding the ‘unsubscribe’ button 🤦♂️. I think this is the problem with most definitions/mantras, they don’t capture every possibility.
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Making simple. Whoever wants measure a developer, don't know anything about development work. Good amount of work is in their mind until it brings the solution. If it is a simple change... maybe is double in some sense.... but things that brings value comes from developers mind/brain... Your points are good too!!
Goodhart's Law : "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Instead of focusing on meaningless metrics companies should focus on healthy team topologies…
You can't manage what you can't measure! MUHAHAHA. Wait how did we make it before numbers? Is logic without numbers possible? Arghhh...
Numbers are just a way to represent measurements. Without numbers you can still measure. But without measuring your previous X, how do you know if you’re getting better at it or not? I may have not fully understood your comment.
@@OutOfDevOps It is this stupid mantra about managing only being possible with metrics that turns a lot of otherwise intelligent human beings in management positions into draconian game masters that want to incentivize you the creative on a micro level to do the right thing. They don't know anything real but they know that there is some correlation between output and success so the output needs to be bigger and faster. Add to that the generic management approach that thinks domain knowledge is irrelevant and you could put a cockroach in charge as it has the same objective function of maximizing some gain short term that feels right instead of the human planning, conceptualizing, remembering stuff and winning in the long run over all other animals.
I see what you mean, I have read stories about customers loyalty metrics improving by simply hiding the ‘unsubscribe’ button 🤦♂️. I think this is the problem with most definitions/mantras, they don’t capture every possibility.