On the topic of LoC, please read Uncle Bob's latest: http://bit.ly/cYQlvB
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote: > The usual strategy here is to get the dev team together, and decide to > spend 1 day (or 1 week, whatever the management cycle is), spending it > only on fixing bugs and refactoring so that every single soul on the > team reports a negative number for the kloc delta. Act oblivious and > wait for the inevitable 'invitation' to management. Then, carefully > explain that development is a little more complicated than this, and > make sure you're ready with 'before' / 'after' notes, showing how > previously horrible, inflexible, unmaintainable crap has been turned > into lean, mean, and very pretty code. Explain that if management > continues to oversimplify, that you see no other option than to never > ever make such improvements again as it would actively count against > your 'productivity', and let management figure out that this > automatically results in a code base that is going to grind to a > complete halt in a year or two. > > On Feb 2, 2:06 am, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I made the mistake once of telling management that, yes, i could count > > lines of code and classes but it was a terrible indicator. Eventually > > they used it against us. I should have said no from the start. Just > > say no. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Viktor Klang | "A complex system that works is invariably | found to have evolved from a simple system | that worked." - John Gall Akka - the Actor Kernel: Akkasource.org Twttr: twitter.com/viktorklang -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
