By bloid
via blog.joesgoals.com
Published: Aug 29 2008 / 13:12
Slate recently posted an article about incentives in the fruit picking industry and how they can increase productivity. Naturally there is a big difference between fruit and scripting, but it begs the question: can we do more in the tech industry to link income to productivity? I think we can.
Comments
joecoder replied ago:
The incentives must be tied to producing something, not removing junk in the code base or fixing bugs. Otherwise, there is a likely unintended side effect to produce more crap in the code. This team had 90% dead code in their code base. What's up with that?
Topnotch replied ago:
One thing I noticed right away is that the pay incentives were too stingy for the amount of work that was involved. Slave wages indeed...
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