Comment by gravy
10 months ago
It never occurred to me that a rebuttal to "not using lines of code or bugs solved because it can be gamed" is just to point out productivity is literally always gamed
10 months ago
It never occurred to me that a rebuttal to "not using lines of code or bugs solved because it can be gamed" is just to point out productivity is literally always gamed
They even have a fancy title, "measurement dysfunction", and a smug "if you know you know" nickname, Goodhart's Law
and Campbells Law, and the CObra effect.
I had not come across "measurement dysfunction" before. Useful phrase.
A related phenomenon is McNamara Fallacy