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Ere's avatar

After some research i read about the surpisingly popular algorithim and this was the result http://inter-view.co.uk/hype/ or http://inter-view.co.uk

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Attributing a percentage might be difficult, as developer productivity in general is not a well defined not does it have a commonly agreed on definition.

Developer productivity to should be mostly concerned with the outputs – which at the end of the day is still code – the quality of such outputs and the cost of those outputs.

For the last 7 years I been working for the same company which grew from the original 5 people team to a 100 team; and boy I can tell you that at least as far as I'm concerned we got a lot slower.

Put as a percentage I would say some tasks are now taking 200% more time to complete, and while is true that now we see larger projects and we have the ability to tackle much more complex tasks; is the simple ones, the trivial ones that I'm still shocked to see are taking too long to complete.

A larger organization faces a considerable amount of challenges to make sure knowledge transfer, communication and repeatable details are still achieved; a smaller team has the advantage of just turning left/right and asking for help or more information.

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