I would prefer to measure developers by inverting the cost of maintenance. I don't want maintenance programmers to be productive, I want them to be whithout anything to do ! ;)
_____________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist IT Utveckling Swedbank AB (Publ) > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Ted MacNEIL > Skickat: den 21 december 2007 17:55 > Till: [email protected] > Ämne: Re: Developer productivity > > >If anyone has worked in a company that has > successfully measured developer productivity I'd be > interested in how they did the measurement. > > I don't know how successful it was, but years ago we used > function points. > Rather than counting lines of code, we would count new > functionality (or modified function). > > In OOP, I think it would be the equivalent of delivering a > new object and/or method. > > But, how do you measure the productivity of maintenance programmers? > > - > Too busy driving to stop for gas! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
