tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084144703351548082.post146211883842856507..comments2023-10-29T10:23:27.584-05:00Comments on Androcass: Some links of interestEric Easterberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11535369798458596223noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084144703351548082.post-76491670433586383842008-08-25T17:23:00.000-05:002008-08-25T17:23:00.000-05:00And, of course, the whole business of measuring pr...And, of course, the whole business of measuring productivity is fraught with difficulty. Few of the "softer" professions in business can be evaluated on the basis of productivity. In the field I know best, software development, some corporate stooge is always trying to count lines of code as a proxy for productivity. Let me assure you that those people never like hearing that the goal, especially once a project is in maintenance mode, is to reduce the number of lines.<BR/><BR/>Management/leadership is another area not very conducive to measurement. I worked for a guy who demonstrated no leadership at all, so I, as a senior person and team lead, had to pick up his slack. Since this same "manager" was the one writing my review, how much credit did I get for doing his job; even if I had received some credit, how would that figure into any metric for my personal productivity?Eric Easterberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11535369798458596223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084144703351548082.post-38767547745113925542008-08-23T08:13:00.000-05:002008-08-23T08:13:00.000-05:00I had to look through my posts, and, yes, I had li...I had to look through my posts, and, yes, I had lifted those links from the Dice board.<BR/><BR/>Ron Hira has an interesting theory about consulting groups that are forecasting ever-increasing rates of offshoring. He said a lot of these consulting groups also pick up a lot of business by helping companies offshore, so their predicted future trends become somewhat self-fulfilling prophecies.<BR/><BR/>A company's use of productivity figures has always been a mystery to me. Just strictly in the US, I've known of some small plants that could heavily outproduce sister plants in other locations. (For example, a Detroit-area plant may be more productive than a northern Michigan plant.) However, productivity sometimes doesn't enter into the equation when it's time to sharpen the budget axe. Since we don't have the luxury of looking at all of a company's figures, we never know for sure if increased productivity offsets the higher wages.Citizen Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12481323943813270047noreply@blogger.com