Comment by Alex3917
6 months ago
> Everyone is still guessing.
This isn't actually true, as the article points out; there is actually tons of empirical research.
6 months ago
> Everyone is still guessing.
This isn't actually true, as the article points out; there is actually tons of empirical research.
No one is capable of measuring programmer productivity objectively.
You can, if you have clear objectives.
Nah. It's impossible, unless you define "productivity" in such a narrow way that it ceases to be relevant to actual business value creation.
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Virtually none of that research is actually high-quality, reproducible, and correlated with organizational outcomes. I don't see it as really actionable one way or the other.