In a company developers are fixed costs. Therefore estimating time is equivalent to estimate cost. Requesting to estimate LOCs makes no sense. Worse, as any me

In a company developers are fixed costs. Therefore estimating time is equivalent to estimate cost. Requesting to estimate LOCs makes no sense. Worse, as any metric developers may be assessed on it can only lead to manipulations (i.e. wasting time on making code longer/shorter to fit the estimate). I've never heard of such policy. Unfortunately (sorry to be blunt) often the "project manager" is the most clueless person the technical team has to deal with, and managing the project manager is a skill.