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+# Myth of Developer Productivity
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+The ability to directly effectively measure individual software developer productivity has eluded software developers for decades.  Why is this so hard and what are the alternatives? 
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+#### Contributed by [Roscoe A. Bartlett](https://github.com/bartlettroscoe), [Mark C. Miller](https://github.com/markcmiller86)
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+#### Publication date: December, ??? 2022
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+Here are the references I want to include: [myth-dev-prod], [cant-meas-prod], [kanban-and-scrum], [impl-lean-dev] (NOTE: We need a CC article for [impl-lean-dev].)
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+Key points to make?
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+* Why we care to measure productivity? => Software estimation, individual developer performance evaluation?
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+* The number one way of improving productivity is to write less software (see [impl-lean-dev]).
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+* The cost of software maintenance is often several times much higher than the cost to create the software in the first place.
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+* The on-going cost of software maintenance is strongly correlated with the size of the code base (see: code complete???).
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+* Defining productivity by directly measuring the amount of software created disincentivizes solutions that may reuse existing software or refactorings that may actaully result in less overall source code.
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+* Cover some of the arguments made in the comments of https://github.com/betterscientificsoftware/bssw.io/issues/1341
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+[myth-dev-prod]: https://nortal.com/us/blog/the-myth-of-developer-productivity/ "The myth of developer productivity"
+[cant-meas-prod]: martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html  "Cannot Measure Productivity"
+[kanban-and-scrum]: bssw.io/items/kanban-and-scrum-making-the-best-of-both "Kanban and Scrum: Making the best of both"
+[impl-lean-dev]: https://bartlettroscoe.github.io/reading-list/#implementing_lean_software_development_2007 "Implementing Lean Software Development"
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