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> They still can’t decide, but I bet we’ve racked up 1000 coder-hours debating it.

That sounds... Good?

Lots of people run into using whatever is vogue without even thinking twice about it. See the massive move to using cloud for absolutely everything, money be damned, and you'll see what I mean. Cargo culting is a huge issue in the industry.

At least they're actually considering if it's making them more or less productive, compared to the vast majority of the ecosystem.



> At least they're actually considering if it's making them more or less productive

At 1,000 hours of "debate", it is unlikely that anyone is considering if it is more or less productive, but rather are using that time to convince themselves that their position is the right one, even when it isn't.


> At 1,000 hours of "debate", it is unlikely that anyone is considering

I mean, if you take that not as an exaggeration but at face value, it's 200 days of 5 hours of discussions per day. I'm fairly sure the specific number is an exaggeration, but if it isn't, I'd probably agree with you :)


To be fair, it was said to be the sum of all developer hours. If we assume 100 developers involved, that would only be 10 hours total. But even 10 hours "debating" something shows that you're no longer considering, just trying to justify something to yourself.


It would be great if they’d actually collect data instead of merely speculating, that’s what I’m getting at.


Software developers and management rarely have the statistics chops to create actually good metrics and data collection.

Just writing everything down isn't data. You have to have a standardized methodology and low-ambiguity signals. You should have systems of blinding.

What's your proposed metric for "productivity" for software developers? You could probably get a management prize for it.




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