25 Nov
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 [...]
Posted in Business, Leadership, Misc by: Stever
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10 Nov
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 [...]
Posted in Business, Computer rants, Entrepreneurship by: Stever
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