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   Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 07:19:50 JST Jenniferplusplus

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   • Marco Rogers

   @polotek Agreed that measuring developers at all is dicey because of how undefined good is. I think on top of that, it just makes no sense to measure individual developer productivity. There's no way to do it, and trying just produces ever more complicated measure for lines of code.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 07:20:20 JST Marco Rogers

     The main reason that productivity metrics for software development aren't useful is that we don't really have any standards for determining what outcomes we are shooting for. Nobody knows what "good" is. So we don't know what we're measuring for.
     https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/112010057412867182

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.