Come on Rachel. You mean that lines of code is not a good measure of a
programmer's productivity? Next thing you'll tell me the its not the number
of pages that makes a book good? :->
(fleeing for my life)
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Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 9:01 AM
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Nuno, you are preaching to the choir here I think :)
There was a manager in that same shop who measured her programmers abilities
by the number of lines of code they wrote in a day. She also said to me once
"I don't like to waste time on design"
Truly. And they wondered why people kept quitting on her.
>From: "Nuno Souto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: OT: Working from home
>Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:45:53 -0800
>
>----- Original Message -----
> >
> > So we all lied a lot. And this was "sitting at our desks"
> >
>
><rant>
>That IMHO is the main flaw of all these new management techniques
>and "metrics" being pushed by methodology reps. They are
>very good when dealing with coal face workers. They haven't got
>a chance in hell of accurately representing working patterns when
>dealing with a technical job. Most of them are extrapolated
>from factory environments, where the amount of work is easy to
>measure in terms of units/hour. Since none of them even make
>an effort at defining what's a unit of work for a DBA or a designer
>or an "architect" or even an analyst, they fail miserably in
>properly tracking this type of job.
>
>Result? Totally incorrect project metrics and cost extrapolations.
>Corollary? Make these jobs disappear because of their "inconvenience"
>in fitting a flawed model. Not fix the model.
>
>And they wonder why projects can easily "fail"? They can't even
>accurately define "failure" nowadays!
></rant>
>
>Cheers
>Nuno Souto
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>http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den
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