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I don’t like this story. The outcome is only accidentally good and what the author seems to miss entirely is the elephant in the room: A crass failure to communicate with the developers. If you try to establish something like KPIs (not commenting on if that is good or bad here) you need to talk to the team and get them on board. If you treat them like lab rats and try to measure individual performance from the outside that is an obvious fail. In the end, where they state that they “quietly” dropped it, indicates that the real lesson was not learned.
Uh, and a dilbert comic.
I think that is rather intentional. The story does not actually offer much of an insight, but give it a Dilbert and slap a clickbaity, slightly misleading spin on it, and you get a descent amount of upvotes.
Uh, and a dilbert comic.
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Scott Adams is a raving lunatic.
Here’s a resonable summary: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
You can also check out his blog directly.
Some people just go off the deep end… yikes. His comics are still funny though.
Not sure why this post doesn’t have a ton of comments. It illustrates the fundamental problem with KPIs and performance measurement. When it comes to measuring human production with digital tools, because the binary measure is so restrictive, it leaves out a universe of values and information that is just ignored as a result. And this very often has dramatic consequences.
Posts tend to generate a lot of comments by:
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being funny, spurring people to try to be funnier (usually failing); or,
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by being interactive, spurring people to answer a prompt in the premise of the post; or,
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by being controversial, spurring people to argue.
This isn’t particularly funny or interactive. And it’s not very controversial either; I think most programmers will agree with this premise.
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Most experienced developers already agree with you
Myopic decision-making is a standard human fault. The problem is that some Deciders have wildly disproportionate effects on everyone else. (i.e. leadership roles across business and government)
We can’t fix individual ignorance and prejudice to a level that will resolve the issue, so maybe we need to invest our efforts in forcibly distributing power to make sure one person (or a small group) can’t unilaterally ruin thousands or millions of lives.
And here i am, striving to become like tim in my professional life ( + being tech lead ). People like that are undervalued assets in any team
