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Archive for November, 2006

25 Nov

The answer to CEO pay: yes, make them pay…

In a recent New York Times article on CEO pay, the reporter closely examines pay practices where companies use peer groups to justify CEO pay. But they don’t disclose who those peers are, allowing CEOs to inflate their pay by carefully choosing the peer group.
That all sounds fine and dandy, but I must ask: what [...]

10 Nov

No one really knows how to measure software productivity

I just ran across this article on how consultants (mis-)measure productivity in software development.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/10b.html
Sad to say, I couldn’t agree more with the article. I started my career as a software engineer, and I’ve met very few people who understood what software is or how to measure it. When it comes to measuring productivity of software [...]

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