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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

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As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. “Measuring engineering efficiency is a known, large and growing problem that’s now become solvable.

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Zeitworks wants to help businesses measure and improve their productivity

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“ So the productivity scores are really geared towards that specific kind of repetitive work. ” He believes that because his company has a very different kind of focus, its scores will be more useful and acceptable to users. .

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Still managing engineers remotely? Okay has a performance dashboard for that

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In the past year, the company saw both its revenue and customer base grow around 10 times, including customers like Sourcegraph and mParticle, which Boulanger attributes to its approach to engineering productivity that is focused on identifying bottlenecks in the development process instead of measuring output.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

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Bureau of Labor Statistics , productivity is a measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the amount of inputs used to produce those goods and services. billion knowledge workers, equaling a trillion hours per year. According to the U.S. Is everyone excited now?

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Workiz locks in $13M for productivity tools aimed at home services professionals

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Knowledge workers — those whose professions tend to be anchored to desks or computers — have long been the most obvious and primary focus for a lot of B2B apps and services.

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Robin raises $30M to expand its office reservation software as companies embrace hybrid work

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In a Gartner poll , 59% of women knowledge workers — who, the poll found, are more likely than men to express a preference for remote work — think in-office employees will be seen as higher performers while 78% believe in-office workers are more likely to be promoted. ”

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured.

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