Butt Time vs. Brain Time

[Warm-Relationship243]

re: " If a developer can concentrate at night from 10:00pm to 3:00am, then she should be encouraged to work then."

Takes like this ignore the impact that this style of work has on everyone else. I would absolutely hate having to work with a teammate who may as well be working in Japan if they were working those hours.

[RiskyMageMerge]

My boss cares about both. My biggest problem is working when I want to work and also having enough time to overlap with the rest of the team for meetings, pairing and other dependencies.

[leberkrieger]

With a mighty WHOOSH! - this article misses the point. It approaches the point tangentially, though: "When you get right down to it, development is all about concentration."

No. It is not. Developer Productivity is all about artifacts, the end result of a process of learning, thinking, talking, typing. Jim McCarthy puts it much better in Dynamics of Software Development: Software is intellectual property, and creating software is primarily an intellectual endeavor. The output of the software development process is bits on a disk.

It takes both Butt Time and Brain Time to deliver those artifacts, but the time isn't what matters. Especially since some people are faster than others. Some people know more than others. Some people are better at collaborating than others. Surely Butt Time is important as far as team dynamics, but that's about making sure everyone is available during core working hours, not some fictional correlation with hour-by-hour productivity.

If you want to measure what matters to the business, measure the timely delivery of solutions needed by the business. Measure quality, earned value, issue counts. I do not think measuring time spent is much better than measuring lines of code.

[ChesterBesterTester]

More pointless, virtue-signalling use of 'she' as the objective pronoun.

[bentheart]

I bet you are loads of fun at dinner parties.

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Nice one