[svsaraf]

Where is the Moneyball for knowledge workers?

[kelseyfrog]

Whats the incentive to share it? Disclosure is an alpha-erasing move.

[quickthrower2]

Not always in the startup world. http://www.paulgraham.com/newideas.html

[nine_zeros]

Oh it exists. Lines of code, number of commits, number of documents and other such BS uncorrelated with actual work.

Imagine how poor management must be to think more lines of code == more revenue.

[wilde]

They are correlated until you admit to using them in the performance process. Then they’re far too easy to game and become useless. What we haven’t found is an adversary-resistant measure of productivity.

[nine_zeros]

They are absolutely not correlated. Engineers often spend some quarters investigating and fixing scaling issues. This work does not need to a high number of locs.

If your work is merely adding some feature factory or bug fixes, maybe there is a correlation.