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OKAY
Company blog · okayhq.com/blog · on HN as tonioabproductivitybusiness
OKAY is the company blog at okayhq.com, writing about productivity and business. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Anti-Patterns with Measuring Engineering Productivity”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked post covers measuring engineering productivity, with a list of reflection questions for teams. The one comment notes the questions overlap with team retrospectives and points to a distinction in the text.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Anti-Patterns with Measuring Engineering Productivity3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-25
- What Is Slowing Down the Dev Process? A Data-Driven Approach3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-02
- Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-25
- Engineering Effectiveness Handbook2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-28
- What remote work does to engineering productivity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-11
- The 5 Stages of Engineering Effectiveness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-17
What Hacker News says?
A lot of the questions listed heavily overlap with what I would expect to be covered in team retrospectives. A team reflecting on progress at regular intervals will naturally bring up processes, meetings, tools, etc, and a manager or team lead can easily add these questions into the mix for reflection and/or discussion as part of this process. The key distinction from this seems to be hidden in the line "Finally, tu…
Comment linking /
on “Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect”Submitted How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams as a story · 474 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect as a story · 170 points
HN discussionSubmitted What remote work does to engineering productivity as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Effectiveness Handbook as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Remote Work Really Does to Your Engineering Productivity as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 5 Stages of Engineering Effectiveness as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating DevOps Tasks Using Process Mining as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learned Helplessness, or When Developers Forget They Should Quit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anti-Patterns with Measuring Engineering Productivity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What We Learned About Engineering Effectiveness Talking to Hundreds of CTOs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Slowing Down the Dev Process? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Slowing Down the Dev Process? A Data-Driven Approach as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Effectiveness Handbook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Common Misconceptions About Engineering Productivity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Okay acquired by Stripe to boost company's engineering effectiveness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Slowing Down the Dev Process? A Data-Driven Approach as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learned Helplessness, or When Developers Forget They Should Quit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anti-Patterns with Measuring Engineering Productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Common Misconceptions About Engineering Productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering productivity can be measured – just not how you'd expect as a story · 1 points
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