Tom Conneely

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Software Engineering

Lines of Code

When writing about Tim Mackinnon I was reminded of the Bill Atkinson -2000 lines of code story in Apple from the early 1980s. The story goes that managers decided to track productivity by asking engineers to fill in a form at the end of each week. In the first week

Be Careful What You Measure

I came across this story of Tim Mackinnon recently. It provided a valuable reminder of the importance of looking at your vision of success and how you structure incentives to realise that vision. You see, the reason that Tim’s productivity score was zero, was that he never signed up