On Fri, March 28, 2008 1:34 pm, James G. Sack (jim) 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. > > People (with some experience) who work together "just know", but sadly, > managers too often are from the clueless ranks. Makes them susceptible > to smoke and mirror mischief perpetrated by the less-than-honest > developers and project managers. I've never worked in a big development > environment, but I guess it could get really bad when not everybody > knows everybody else. > > Regards, > ..jim
Managers are (usually) not stupid and many were once coders. Unfortunately, they need metrics to drive decision making. LOC is perhaps the least useful metric possible and can actually be destructive. It's alos toe metric with the largest body of accumulated data. This tells me that most accumulated data on code productivity is BS. How do you compare 20 lines of assembler with 20 lines of Python? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
