Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-05 Thread Theo Fondse
Hi Charlie! Although I have grown over the past few years to fully agree with LJ on this subject, I can also understand the need for metrics to have something to go by to know if our performance is on-par or not. Sadly, measurements in the LOC style no longer give a true picture of actual

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-05 Thread Danny Kellett
Quantity != Quality -- Danny Kellett dkell...@javasystemsolutions.com On Thu, Jun 5, 2014, at 09:31 AM, Theo Fondse wrote: ** Hi Charlie! Although I have grown over the past few years to fully agree with LJ on this subject, I can also understand the need for metrics to have something to

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-05 Thread Theo Fondse
. Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two.. - Matt Black On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Danny Kellett dkell...@javasystemsolutions.com wrote: ** Quantity != Quality -- Danny Kellett dkell...@javasystemsolutions.com On Thu, Jun 5, 2014, at 09:31 AM, Theo Fondse wrote: ** Hi

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-05 Thread Ken Pritchard
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Danny Kellett Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 4:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics ** Quantity != Quality -- Danny Kellett dkell...@javasystemsolutions.com

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-05 Thread JD Hood
The thought of trying to measure something as fungible as development -- given that there is usually more than nine way to skin a cat in Remedy -- tends to make me believe the idea stems from a manager with far too much time on their hands. And as far as measuring development, I would think you

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-05 Thread Roney Samuel Varghese.
A good start for metrics could be the number of bugs/issues raised against a development effort and the number of occurrences of the same behavior over a period of time. Regards, Roney Samuel Varghese. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 5, 2014, at 8:50 AM, JD Hood hood...@gmail.com wrote: **

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-05 Thread Rick Cook
Totally with you, JD! Rick On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:50 AM, JD Hood hood...@gmail.com wrote: ** The thought of trying to measure something as fungible as development -- given that there is usually more than nine way to skin a cat in Remedy -- tends to make me believe the idea stems from a

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-05 Thread JD Hood
Hmmm... If the bugs could be traced to a given developers competency rather than due to conflicting or poor reqs and/or otherwise unintended consequences of the reqs, you are likely on to something... But shouldn't we already be capturing something along those lines from the root causes

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It’s been a really long time where I worked in a shop where you can assume that 1) you have completed requirements, 2) that you can do only development work, and 3) it’s entirely a custom application. This seems to be fairly rare in our world of ITSM. I can say that with out of the box

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, I once got the assignment to add some functionality the ITSM notification system. I could probably have hammered away right away, adding a bunch of field and loads of FLTR/ACTL/ESCL to do this. Maintaining that solution would have been a nightmare. Instead I sat staring at the existing

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread Kemes, Lisa A DLA CTR INFORMATION OPERATIONS
04, 2014 8:43 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics Hi, I once got the assignment to add some functionality the ITSM notification system. I could probably have hammered away right away, adding a bunch of field and loads of FLTR/ACTL/ESCL to do

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread richard....@bwc.state.oh.us
Lotridge Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 9:01 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics ** Dave, Ok, fair enough. And I agree there are a lot of qualifications/considerations. I'm seeing now, though, that I posed too broad (and sensitive) a question. Let me try

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread LJ LongWing
Charlie, I have a long standing hatred of performance metrics, that I won't go into the background for here, but I'll attempt to answer the basis of your question. Where I work currently, we went through an 'Agile transformation' a few years back. We all went through training on how to develop

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread Charlie Lotridge
Hi all, Thanks for all your responses. And, while I didn't get quite what I was looking for, it's certainly my own fault for not starting with the more narrow question I eventually posed. And even that I should have qualified by stating assuming perfectly efficient workflow. I fully agree with

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread Ken Pritchard
discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Charlie Lotridge Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 10:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics ** Hi all, Thanks for all your responses. And, while I didn't get quite what I was looking

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
From seeing all the responses, I won't echo their thoughts or go into numbers such as # of objects created per day and all that. To look at it from a management point of view, I would try to measure the performance of Remedy devs the same as I would manage any other member of the IT staff. Are

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread Gordon Frank
If what you are looking for is the old Lines of Code (LOC) measure used in the COCOMO Model and others, then I have always equated an Action Request System (ARS) object (Active Links, Active Link Guides, Filters, Filter Guides, Menus and Escalations - Not Forms) to 50 lines of code. I believe this

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-03 Thread LJ LongWing
My opinion is that 'performance metrics suck and don't work the way they are intended'. There has been healthy debate over the years regarding exactly that subject, and every time it's happened, either on the list or otherwise, it ends up being that no one 'metric' can accurately say that this

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-03 Thread Charlie Lotridge
LJ says 'performance metrics suck and don't work the way they are intended'. So, do you feel strongly about this? Yikes! ;) Really, though, while I didn't participate or even see any of those prior conversations about this subject, a couple points occur to me... First, while you're of course

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-03 Thread Rick Cook
Charlie, I don't mean this in a RTFM kind of way, but you would do yourself a service by searching for and reading the previous threads on the topic. I think they would answer your questions. Rick On Jun 3, 2014 4:03 PM, Charlie Lotridge lotri...@mcs-sf.com wrote: ** LJ says 'performance

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-03 Thread Shellman, David
Charlie, Being an AR System admin is not about how many active links or filters or fields one can put together in a day. Do they work as intended? Are the permissions right? If they are not working as intended how well does the individual do to figure out what is not right and correct the

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-03 Thread Charlie Lotridge
Dave, Ok, fair enough. And I agree there are a lot of qualifications/considerations. I'm seeing now, though, that I posed too broad (and sensitive) a question. Let me try a different angle on this, which should be sufficient for my needs: On a good day, and if it's all you had to do, about

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-03 Thread Joel Sender
...@earthlink.net310.829.5552 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Charlie Lotridge Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 6:01 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics ** Dave, Ok, fair enough. And I agree