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by onceUponADime 2325 days ago
No, no, this rigorious ratings are for lower class endavours.

Higher classes get a title, which is a one off rubber stamp of quality and then will never again be judged on performance standing alone. Dr. Senior. Dipl. Ing.

Except by there peers, who will lower a silk of omerta over "internal" affairs like a lack of quality in work.

Of course, between these professions, there are meta-power struggles, which will play out, in a court- stylized fashion, a eternal ritualized war between castes like "management" and "technical execution".

Metrics, as demanded by one caste, are worthless, as they rely on a working interface provided by the oppossition or in depth knowledge, making a allegiance two too factions necessary.

Thus all that remains of them is a ritualized insistence, to compensate for the creeping feeling of a lack of controll. For those who need them, can not get them and be certain they are accurate. Making metrics, actually - a flag of truce.