[mattmanser]

Did it ever occur to you they might not be bad developers, they're just goofing off because there's no consequence for being slow?

Like when my old work actually started measuring ticket closure times, our best developers were only 2x more productive than our worst ones. But suddenly a lot more tickets were getting closed.

I mean,I know that some complicated tasks needed the best developers, as the worst ones literally were incapable of understanding the code, but then again doesn't that say something about the code itself and how poorly it communicates its intent? Perhaps clever code is simply confusing code...

[escribmac]

I agree, I think that falls under organizational practices