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> At the level of granularity
> where productivity is actually measured in a product
> development
> environment, it makes no difference how many words
> you write in the one
> hour a day you spend at the keyboard writing. What
> matters is how many
> days you take to finish the document.
OK, I wrote a 10 page intro doc over the last 14
weeks. How productive was I? Granted, in that time I
also completed 15 other projects and sat in about 40
hours worth of unrelated meetings. How productive was
I?
> If you finish it to an acceptable
> quality level in four days instead of putting a
> museum-quality sheen on
> it in five days, you've gone from 0.20 documents per
> day to 0.25
> documents per day, which is a 25% improvement in
> productivity.
Again, you're using one unit of measure, which works
for 100% work involvement, but is not the rule, only a
model that *can* fit the rule under certain conditions.
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