Yes, right tails for things that better represent actual value produced in the world, i.e. projects/products/etc. I’m pretty skeptical of productivity metrics for individual developers like the ones described in that paper, since almost by construction they’re incapable of capturing right-tail outcomes, and also fail to capture things like “developer is actually negative value”. I’m open to the idea that remote work has better median performance characteristics, though expect this to be pretty noisy.
Yes, right tails for things that better represent actual value produced in the world, i.e. projects/products/etc. I’m pretty skeptical of productivity metrics for individual developers like the ones described in that paper, since almost by construction they’re incapable of capturing right-tail outcomes, and also fail to capture things like “developer is actually negative value”. I’m open to the idea that remote work has better median performance characteristics, though expect this to be pretty noisy.