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Fundamentally, that’s why SLOC can be useful as an estimating metric, but terrible as a control metric. SLOC, FP and so on all have their limitations, but they
by HillRat 7y ago
Fundamentally, that’s why SLOC can be useful as an estimating metric, but terrible as a control metric. SLOC, FP and so on all have their limitations, but they demonstrate that most of the effort-time in a project doesn’t go into putting hands on keyboard. Conversely, trying to monitor developer productivity with SLOC simply reintroduces the conceptual error that the estimation effort attempts to prevent.
- skore 7y agoGoodhart's law - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." I used to work for a company that bills their customers for dev hours spent. The software they put together worked fabulously well - in the production of billable dev hours.