On 1/16/15 2:17 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
I've worked at companies that would rate engineers based on the "bug count". That ended very badly, it was so bad it was comical, how working that number actually wrecked the quality of the product. I've seen similar disasters with use of metrics on inventory minimization, and others. Ever since it has made me deeply suspicious about basing quality on such numbers.
One anecdote is what it is. There is a lot of value in informative proxies. -- Andrei
