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(Benno Rice, Daisy Leigh Brenecki) What does it mean to be productive? If you work in software development that generally means shipping code, or at least changes to code. There’s always been a tension in how to measure the output of a software developer though, and that’s partly due to the at least partially creative nature of the work we do.

So when a tool comes along and promises to make you more productive, how do you assess that?

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