How Google measures developer productivity | Ciera Jaspan, Collin Green (Google)
Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda
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The Importance of Human Judgment in Software Development
The idea that so many things in software development are intangible can only really be understood and measured by using human judges. The example we've read in the paper I think is about migrating from like Python 2 to Python 3, right? And that's a very concrete example, but we can imagine ideal states that don't have anything to do with new languages or whatever. But I think that it's that disconnect between what could be and what is. That expert judgment is a really critical thing to technical debt.
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