[pryelluw]

Then is it a real 10x increase in output if the output is in supporting areas and not the code/feature delivery? It seems like you’re saying that you are now able to maintain documentation at a faster rate and increase testing but not the actual development speed of the feature itself.

[tracker1]

I said 2-4x on value.. which would be development of the feature itself in terms of direct output... not even considering setting up test harnesses and doing more adventurous changes that would take me a lot longer to do.

[pryelluw]

I was referring to the sentence: I'm getting about 2-4x the value and about 10x the output... the "value" is features landing in code and the difference to the 10x is documentation and testing.

What does the 10x imply?

And are you saying that you are outputting 2-4x as in: value * value * value * value in the case of 4x? That seems rather high.

[tracker1]

10x is 10x the output I could have done by myself. 2-4x is between 2 and 4 times the output I could have done myself. I distinguish "value" as that which is strictly a concern for the users/stakeholders, who themselves don't necessarily consider robust testing harnesses or internal-only documentation a value.

I said 4x as a cap for value, I don't know how you interpret that as x^4 ...

4x is 4 * x, x^4 would be your xxx*x ...