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by orwin 1332 days ago
True. We tried to eliminate management with scrum and agile which helps with accountability, but in my experience, it doesn't help when the dev is overwhelmed, outside his area of competency (the second causing the first, which was my situation 8 months ago), not engaged (too good/not interested) or simply not good enough for the mission. Those are for me the main reasons why a dev would not be productive.

Yes those situations are easier to detect at the office, but a good manager would detect those at home too.