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Well, productivity measures how fast you deliver new value. Fixing a bug is about repairing value that you thought you had delivered but actually did not. Counting bugs as "value" …

Interesting to note that two of your decision points are on "shipping product improvements at a regular cadence" or "shipping so slow that it's negatively impacting customers". Bot…

That’s very interesting, what is the score based on?

I agree 100%, you need to have a strong product foundation to turn good output into good business outcome. A productive team that delivers features no one wants is pointless. Both …

I’m finding very little resource on this topic. However, it is paramount to follow it as a team grows or a company grows - I’ve known many companies whose developers effectively st…

Your comment got me curious, so I've just asked one of the best developers at Google. If you want to tag along and make some noise: https://twitter.com/FlavianHautbois/status/15972…

I'm actually curious about this, so I've just asked one of the best developers at Google. If you want to tag along and make some noise: https://twitter.com/FlavianHautbois/status/1…

Don't get me wrong, pairing has merits. Let me give you an example. I'm in the middle of going through type challenges in Typescript ( https://github.com/type-challenges/type-chall…

1. Yes, that's the point. 10x doesn't say "compared to what", but hints at "compared to now" 2. For sure. My 3 former companies let people spike while working, and I've seen medioc…

Being independent or in a co-op, what would be your training system?

It looks like your company is ticking a lot of boxes, they're a keeper for sure. Would you share their name?

This. I genuinely think this is one of the best comments in this thread!

You're right in a way, but you're missing the "10x compared to what?". Consider the 1x baseline as being the median productivity of your development team (which is definitely hard …

I assume some of the skills you're trained on are technical too. Your organization sounds like it does a lot to develop engineers, do you think it's paying off regarding competitio…

I found it to be very challenging to deep-dive into harder subjects when doing pairing

Most don’t, I’m wondering if they should.

I’m interested in how companies create 10x engineers. To deepen the discussion, you can cover for example: - What skills - Training frequency - How is your next set of skills decid…