Comment by hermannj314
2 years ago
It is also possible if they fired this guy, and replaced him with another developer that only did points that the organization would be more productive.
Without quantifying it or comparing to an alternative, this is just feel good commentary. If you deliver any value, that does not consequently make you a good business decision. You have to pit your value against your cost and the companies best alternative option.
Also, if a company measures my value in widgets, I have found my career does quite well assuming widgets is the right way to measure my value. Assuming you know better than everyone in management is prideful and not good teamwork.
The answer to your scenario is `yes` with a high probability (taken from my magician's hat), but only in the short term.
People like the one described in the article prepare a pipeline of good engineers, who also have experience in the domain and in the organization.
So if one cares about fast delivery, get a good number of sr engineers who work on their own thing, share little and are not encumbered by each other. If a company needs to deliver urgently this works, but is an (expensive, short term) option.
Your last paragraph just said that if you hire people and tell them their earnings depend on $METRIC they will optimize said metric.
The argument here is which metric, or are metrics good for anything? [1]
[1] Except ditch digging and children. It is well known that 9 people will dig a ditch in 1/9 the time one person will, and 9 women will make a baby in 1 month instead of 9.