Christopher Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:56:20AM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> >>> Yes, a measurement(definition) of "productivity" is practically >>> impossible. >>> >> >> I was about to say that but you beat me to it. Incredible! >> Are we really saying that a manager has no way to determine who is the >> most >> productive amongst his coders? I think we'd agree that we can tell >> between >> an extrememly bad and an extremely good coder. The problem is >> distinguishing >> between 2 faily equally matched coders. >> > Yeah, the problem is one of an objective and precise measurement. I > believe "function points" were supposed to address this. >
My understanding is that using function points is a whole lot better than (say) LOC for estimating (especially) and productivity tracking, but at the end it's far from perfect because of inherent difficulties of quantifying software development. Maybe: anything that works only works well for doing something you already know how to do (and for doing it the same way)? You might have a different approach to a familiar problem that finds fewer or more function points but has other tradeoffs. Tough stuff, eh? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
