Interesting. Did that work well?

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Leah Garrett <[email protected]>wrote:

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> At a place I worked out there was a team that used KPIs for development.
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> There were about 15 people on the team. They were maintaining an internal
> application that ran the business.  Their change request / bug tracking
> system had fields to score the change.  The score fields had to be completed
> by three different people; the person completed the change, the code
> reviewer (peer from the team) as well as the internal client who requested
> the change.  The scores were built by combining the score in a series of
> categories including quality and customer service.
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> The change request / bug tracking system scores were used in annual reviews
> of individuals as well as for the team.
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *[email protected]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 29 June 2010 10:22 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: KPI's for software developers
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> Several years ago we outsourced development of several modules and got a
> horrible mess of spaghetti code in return. On more than one occasion we've
> fixed bugs purely by deleting code, without adding or changing any existing
> code.
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> And refactoring parts of these modules often results in a 50% or greater
> reduction in the size of the code and the same functionality (except for the
> bugs). If I didn't know otherwise, I would have sworn they were being paid
> per line of code.
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> Ben
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea
> *Sent:* Monday, 28 June 2010 8:08 PM
> *To:* ozDotNet
> *Subject:* Re: KPI's for software developers
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> >> So what about the people who delete code? I know someone who measures
> himself on lines deleted. :)
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> >> No name, but I think its a great idea!
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> Are you talking about me again? :)
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> I quite often measure my success rate by number of lines re-factored (which
> most often mean deleted). I consider a good achievement when I reduce the
> codebase I'm working by about 30-40% while adding 10-15% new functionality
> in those areas.
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> Corneliu.
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> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Stephen Price <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> So what about the people who delete code? I know someone who measures
> himself on lines deleted. :)
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> No name, but I think its a great idea!
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> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:44 AM, David Kean <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> Definitely track it by the amount of code that write, the bugs they fix and
> soda they drink. ;)
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Richard Moore
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 24, 2010 5:40 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* KPI's for software developers
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> Hi all
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> Does anyone have any good useful key performance indicators (KPI) that
> measure a software developers performance?
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> Kind regards
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