[lifeisstillgood]

> becomes whether or not a stakeholder feels like they are getting what they want.

If the stakeholder you choose is a customer, then that is a valid measure of business productivity.

Which I guess is kind of the point - we are trying to measure on a granularity beyond what we can validly do.

Which indicates to me that a world of smaller organisations, made up of software literate people will be one where rewards will follow talent. That may not be a world we want to live in - and my cynicism sees your cynicism and raises :-)