We can keep discussing this forever and get nowhere if nobody defines what is meant with 10x. Ten times what compared to what under what circumstances?
Is the baseline the average developer worldwide or the average developer in any particular team?
Are we measuring jira tickets fixed or net profit produced for the business, or the impossible-to-measure “productivity”? Are we measuring a single task or consistent performance over years?
The anecdote in the OP is about a developer solving a task in a tenth of the estimated time. Great, but this seem more like an issue with the estimation process which presumably didn’t involve the devloper. Would an unrealistically low estimate mean they were a 0.1x developer?
Is the baseline the average developer worldwide or the average developer in any particular team?
Are we measuring jira tickets fixed or net profit produced for the business, or the impossible-to-measure “productivity”? Are we measuring a single task or consistent performance over years?
The anecdote in the OP is about a developer solving a task in a tenth of the estimated time. Great, but this seem more like an issue with the estimation process which presumably didn’t involve the devloper. Would an unrealistically low estimate mean they were a 0.1x developer?