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I hope they found a good way to measure productivity, because I never came across a convincing one.
At my company they came up with a great plan. Count our pr merges lol.
It's been going on a few weeks and they are just realizing that we have a ton of prs but still haven't shipped a ton of features lol.
They have played their hand and shown they have no idea what they are doing.
Haha. Better or worse than, 'jira tickets' or 'story points'?
They're doing a f-ing reporting database migration just now, just measure tables created that match the old DB. And standard user queries that output the same.
"Oh hang on, does the new database have to have the same data as the old one?" "We've reviewed all of our non existing requirements gathering notes and the "business " never wrote that as a requirement. we can squeeze it in later on the roadmap, when some dev resources have been freed up. Can you tell us more about these 'queries'; is that a power bi thing? - i think another team does that?"
Sack 3 or more layers of "management/director/head of/architect/strategy", that have a lot more impact on productivity than letting people wank from home.
We did. Projects move ahead faster, problems got solved quicker, problems went down.
Frankly, it was never remote working per se, it was embracing the elements that make it work: asynchronous work. Documenting EVERYTHING, completely open infrastructure (everyone can see what everyone is doing/working on), requiring dedicated YOU do this tasks, assignments etc.
But from then on, we didn't need an office anymore. We don't even need regularly scheduled hours for everyone, what ever works for them is fine. I think that gives people opportunity to do things when they like, and without the commute there is a lot more actually doing the work when they are there.
Individual worker / team / prod line. Sure you can measure those. That's great for those at thst level.. But I don't know how you add them up across the whole of "America" without some very dubious economic statistics bullshit.
Empirically , economy wide measures are generally useless i reckon. And often manipulated. It's very hard to add up output of different production lines (or different goods or services) in a single meaningful measure and account for all the variables like quality, product mix, availability and if you're using price-weights all stuff that distorts market power. Econo-statisticians will calculate it, because they get paid to, but the honest/aware ones should fess up it's got serious weaknesses however you calculate it.