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← Software productivity cannot be measured, because there is no way to measure a development team's output.
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Read this korrent: Software productivity cannot be measured, because there is no way to measure a development team's output.
Software productivity cannot be measured, because there is no way to measure a development team's output.
Last stated 23 years ago
29 Aug 2003
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Martin Fowler — holds since 2003-08-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Lines of code cannot measure productivity, because better-designed code is shorter. — tap to centre the map on it
Lines of code cannot measure productivity, because better-designed code is shorter.
Last stated 23 years ago
29 Aug 2003
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Martin Fowler — holds since 2003-08-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Team output is still what matters, however hard the industry pushes to measure individual output. — tap to centre the map on it
Team output is still what matters, however hard the industry pushes to measure individual output.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
12 Aug 2026
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Charity Majors — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Software cannot reach its next level until somebody builds the next level of hardware underneath it. — tap to centre the map on it
Software cannot reach its next level until somebody builds the next level of hardware underneath it.
Last stated 3 months ago
7 Jun 2026
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Tony Fadell — holds since 2026-06-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A lab under real commercial pressure cannot fool itself about whether AI makes it productive, because the output is a model launch every few months. — tap to centre the map on it
A lab under real commercial pressure cannot fool itself about whether AI makes it productive, because the output is a model launch every few months.
Last stated 7 months ago
13 Feb 2026
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Dario Amodei — holds since 2026-02-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If every growth initiative is an experiment, the team has a paralysing disease rather than a process. — tap to centre the map on it
If every growth initiative is an experiment, the team has a paralysing disease rather than a process.
Last stated 2 years ago
19 Jan 2025
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Elena Verna — holds since 2025-01-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The absence of a visible productivity jump from AI proves nothing, because a real ten percent uplift across the board would be impressive and almost invisible from outside. — tap to centre the map on it
The absence of a visible productivity jump from AI proves nothing, because a real ten percent uplift across the board would be impressive and almost invisible from outside.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
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Casey Muratori — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Adoption is worth measuring first despite being a bad metric, because developers are cranky enough not to use a tool that is awful. — tap to centre the map on it
Adoption is worth measuring first despite being a bad metric, because developers are cranky enough not to use a tool that is awful.
Last stated 6 months ago
22 Mar 2026
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Nicole Forsgren — holds since 2026-03-22 — tap for who they are
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