This. Measuring productivity is useless if you are producing the wrong thing. Even ignoring all the things programmers do other than writing code, this idea still completely ignores the many external factors that interfere with productivity.
Organisations are more than the sum of their parts. It's not like you can take a bunch of 10x programmers from a successful project, put them on a failing project and expect them to just get it done. Why is 10x programmers a thing but not 10x management?
Organisations are more than the sum of their parts. It's not like you can take a bunch of 10x programmers from a successful project, put them on a failing project and expect them to just get it done. Why is 10x programmers a thing but not 10x management?