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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And yet I experience it so often. That or “effort points” as the metric being used to determine who all stars are.

Either as a metric just encourages gaming of the system:

  • Why write one line when I can write the same thing in 20?
  • Why take this one effort point task I think will take three when I can just skip it and grab these one effort points I think will take 20 minutes?

I’ve been on teams that on the surface didn’t have these metrics matter, but the top effort points achiever got bonuses on the DL.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago

What did you do?? You refacted the code and now it's better organized but you overall got rid of lines?

I'll set up a PMD meeting to help you out of this problem, but fair to say don't expect a raise or a bonus this year.