---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:10:29 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: myth of the amazingly productive coder > > Gabriel Sechan wrote: >> ---------------------------------------- >> >>> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:27:29 -0700 >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: myth of the amazingly productive coder >>> >>> The problem is that if you use *any* system for measurement, humans will >>> game it. It's the nature of the beast. The only way to prevent gaming >>> the system is for there to be a human standing over it going "Stop it. >>> You're gaming the system rather than playing the game." >>> >>> >> Or for them to not know what the system is. Security through obscurity, but >> it works for a while. >> > The other way is to make the system measure exactly what you care about. > The only real problem with "gaming" of systems is when what you are > measuring is a proxy for what you actually want. > But that's only possible if measuring a physical system with a numeric result. Productivity isn't, so you're always going to measure for things that are indicators, not exactly what you wanted.
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