Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
According to labor statistics, productivity for American workers continues to climb. I can understand how that is measured for industries in which there is a measurable *thing* produced, such as cars or toasters, but how do those statistics get determined for nontangibles? Let's look at, say, software coders - how can you measure their productivity?
Or is this a P2C2E (Process Too Complicated To Explain)?
That depends on the company. Some use lines of code. My last job had a web-based database where the managers decided what parts of the software to add/modify, then broke the work to do that into smaller chunks, and let the programmers assigned to do those tasks guesstimate a time to complete each one. Productivity is approximated by how many of those chunks get finished, and how long they take. ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .............................. http://www.brin-l.org Chmeee's 3D Objects .................... http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .................. http://www.sloansteady.com Software ................ Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans ......................... http://www.sloan3d.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
