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[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 9 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, getting metrics on software development has always been a problem from the first time people were writing code in the employ of a business.

Businesses love metrics. Put them on spreadsheet makes some graphs, that's what some people do as their job.

The problem is you can't actually measure the productivity of someone that's doing something that's never been done before. Software development is always about doing things that haven't been done before. If you want the same software, you just copy it, you don't need a developer. You only need a developer to make the software do something it doesn't currently do, which means having someone do something they've never done before.

You just can't measure the productivity on that. But businesses want to have some numbers, so they chuck whatever numbers they have into a spreadsheet.

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