sounds like a pretty poor metric to me, surely estimated time not lines of code would be better, a line could be 5 characters or 50 but not only that it fails t

sounds like a pretty poor metric to me, surely estimated time not lines of code would be better, a line could be 5 characters or 50 but not only that it fails to account for time to think of the best solution to a problem asking someone that kind of bids them to their answer, like a word count on an essay it forces people to either cut back or add in extraneous crap to meet the required count how would this manager react if the work was delivered in time and did the job it was supposed to but either fell very short of or far over the original estimate