Tracking contributions

[John Poelstra]

Max Spevack said the following on 06/03/2008 01:19 PM Pacific Time:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> 
>> Again, you are focusing too much on time.  I don't think anyone, Jef 
>> included, was looking for strict metrics of time.  They're never worth 
>> the trouble.
> 
> +1
> 
> In my experience in the professional world, almost every time a group 
> inside a company or organization is asked to account for how they spent 
> their hours, it follows with much gnashing of teeth by the employees and 
> general thinking that the management is doing it wrong.
> 
> Am I wrong?  Or are my experiences simply too narrow?

Yes and no.  Gnashing of teeth is usually an indicator that the wrong 
the thing is being measured and is not useful.

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John