Ok, I have two comments/questions. First, from what I see the link points to an ISPF replacement. That might have helped a few years ago, but now most developers are not doing their work on ISPF. They're using tools on Windows or Unix. I know that we're mainframe bigots, but that's just the way it is today.
Second, how do you measure developer productivity? Our CIO goes around to each team's group meeting once a year just to keep in touch with us grunts. Some good discussion does come out of it. He just visited my team's meeting and one of the topics that came up was how to measure the productivity of IT people, especially developers. We talked about how in manufacturing you can measure the quantity of widgets produced, but what do you measure in the IT developer world? Counting the lines of code produced has been tried and most companies received what you might expect - a lot of lines of inefficient, error prone code. So then you take lines of code produced and put in a penalty for errors. What kind of formula do you use? If anyone has worked in a company that has successfully measured developer productivity I'd be interested in how they did the measurement. Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dave Salt > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Developer productivity > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> On the "buy more" side, I generally > favor looking first at> application developer productivity, because that's > where you'll find> significant IT cost. That's also where business > benefits result, if> developers can deliver quicker and with higher > quality. I get very> concerned with organizations where this "software > line" in the developer> productivity area hasn't moved in 20+ years > > <ad> > I couldn't have said it better myself! Anyone that's interested in > improving developer productivity, please click the link below. > </ad> > > Happy holidays everyone! Dave SaltSee the new SimpList(tm) rollover image > at:http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm > _________________________________________________________________ > Introducing the City @ Live! Take a tour! > http://getyourliveid.ca/?icid=LIVEIDENCA006 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
