If there are 1/10 developers, there are, in fact 10x developers.
Guys, math and stuff.
In all seriousness, there's a lot of things being done in the productivity and quality spaces to try and mine data to measure things. I recently joined tenXer (.com) which is trying to both drive productivity measurements as well as quality indicators.
We by no means have any answers, but I think things have evolved a lot in the recent years to where bringing real measurements is becoming a possibility.
I think the important thing here is to realize that measuring people is not solely for someone to manage you differently. You can't succeed in something if you don't have a reasonable success metric, and data makes it far easier to capture those.
Guys, math and stuff.
In all seriousness, there's a lot of things being done in the productivity and quality spaces to try and mine data to measure things. I recently joined tenXer (.com) which is trying to both drive productivity measurements as well as quality indicators.
We by no means have any answers, but I think things have evolved a lot in the recent years to where bringing real measurements is becoming a possibility.
I think the important thing here is to realize that measuring people is not solely for someone to manage you differently. You can't succeed in something if you don't have a reasonable success metric, and data makes it far easier to capture those.