Valuing software developers (and other people too)

25 Sep 2003

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Jon Udell writes in Baseball lessons for software teams that new discoveries in valuing baseball players (based on the number of walks) are a lesson to be learned for the IT industry. ``Software development has an equivalent to the base on balls: a module that doesn?t have to be written new because it already exists and can be reused.'' I've never been a fan of any of the existing metrics I've encountered; KLoC least of them all. Jon highlights the effect of community involvement and reputation as clues to the value of developers.

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

What I do

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    I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.

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    I help out in making these geek social events happen every two months in Cape Town since March 2007.

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    I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.

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    I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).

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