Funny, I've spent the last 2 years trying to quiet the impulse to jump to the solution stage. @Medium
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The impulse is simple - do the straightforward thing because it "counts" as progress even if it isn't.
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Companies tend not to reward the engineer who said, "Yeah, I thought about it and we shouldn't build this."
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Realizing I'm just parroting my blog post from a year ago, so gonna link-drop and be donehttp://amcaplan.ninja/blog/2015/12/02/metrics-that-matter/ …
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Replying to @amcaplan @saronyitbarek
my concern about metrics is not the two you listed but rather the problem of omission.
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I'm curious what you think is omitted and how to include it.
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metrics cover a small % of the things you should care about, but get outsized focus by data people.
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and people usually focus on The Facts that they know about and skip empathy that may render The Facts moot.
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hard to argue against empathy
but realizing "Hey no one has paired in 2 weeks" can be a good kick in the rear. @saronyitbarek1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @amcaplan @saronyitbarek
sure, but "this study shows pair programming doesn't improve productivity over the control" is pointless.
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too many variables by faaaar.
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