“Productivity”. You Keep Using That Word.

Bill writes a book with about 80,000 words. It takes him 500 hours.

Priti writes a book with about 60,000 words. It takes her 2,000 hours.

Which author is most productive?

It’s a nonsensical question, of course.

Beating a dead productivity horse: lines of code or commits?

If we create a software solution with the aim of reducing the cost of deliveries for our business, and the cost goes up, do we look in the repo to see if it was because we didn’t write enough code or do enough commits?

Also loved this quote by W. Edwards Deming:

If you give a manager a numerical target, he’ll make it even if he has to destroy the company in the process.