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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns

The Next Web

Having said that, you have to be very careful with such lists and all other personal “vanity metrics” They tell the world that you’re doing something right but can have very little to do with the impact you have or how successful you are. These are the “metrics” you should live by.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Its impossible to use hard-and-fast metrics to decide where someone fits in, and these kinds of metrics tend to accidentally incentivize the wrong things. One excellent contributor might write a ton of great code; anothers strength might be in getting teams to jell and work together.