{"id":646,"date":"2006-08-22T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T18:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/6664017d32a25776ef8acf9ea513270a"},"modified":"2006-08-22T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T18:10:28","slug":"why-metrics-alone-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Why metrics alone don&#8217;t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/3277\">commented<\/a> on the fact that having a sixth sense was nothing knew, but that normally it wasn't applied to watching closely what your developers are doing. That was because the original referred to another CW short, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/Hardware\/News\/~3\/15024932\/article.do\">Develop a Sixth Sense About IT...<\/a> which talked about a new software package that monitors the files your developers have open. <\/p>\n<p>I was, mildly, criticised for not taking these matters seriously. That couldn't be further from the truth. As a developer and writer I am more than aware of how you should monitor your rates and achievements. I do it by placing information into iCal and tracking that with a separate project management package that compares the recorded times with my predicted times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=48nlU9\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=48nlU9\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/15441420\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/3277\">commented<\/a> on the fact that having a sixth sense was nothing knew, but that normally it wasn&#8217;t applied to watching closely what your developers are doing. That was because the original referred to another CW short, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/Hardware\/News\/~3\/15024932\/article.do\">Develop a Sixth Sense About IT&#8230;<\/a> which talked about a new software package that monitors the files your developers have open. <\/p>\n<p>I was, mildly, criticised for not taking these matters seriously. That couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. As a developer and writer I am more than aware of how you should monitor your rates and achievements. I do it by placing information into iCal and tracking that with a separate project management package that compares the recorded times with my predicted times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=48nlU9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=48nlU9\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/15441420\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}