Re: Code write \ code review productivity

From: Roedy Green (see_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:02:15 GMT

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:34:41 +0300, Volodymyr Sadovyy
<vsadovyy_@_hotmail.com> wrote or quoted :

>Can somebody refer me to resource with specified/analyzed/approximated
>productivity in Java coding and Java code review tasks? Coding
>productivity is more described in the net, but I didn't find anything
>about code review productivity...

There are two sorts of question you want to know:

1. how productive is this person capable of being?

2. is this person slacking off?

The first can be answered by given each person to be measured the same
task. At the end of the day you measure the quality (smaller is
better), and % complete.

The second can be measured by asking several people to estimate time
on each task, and also statistically measuring how much over/under
each person is when he is actually assigned that task. You have to do
this over months.

The problem with the sorts of productivity measures I have seen, is
they encourage verbose pedestrian solutions to crank up the line
count.
They also discourage putting in time now to save time later in
maintenance. 

--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming. 
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