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Discussion on: LOC is an important metric to measure developer productivity

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Olivier

In my team we measure productivity with thoses questions in mind :

  • Does the deadlines are respected ?
  • Is the customer satisfied ?
  • Is the code quality is good enough ?
  • Is there a lot of bugs after a release ?
  • Is the onboarding of new developers easy ?

The number of lines is irrelevant for us, and yet our 2 largest projects exceed one million lines each.

During the 2 month where you 8 developers change 23 lines what did they do ? If the answer is nothing there is a management problem , it shouldn't take more than a day or two to figure that your dev are fooling around. But maybe they where just working on peripherals tasks (documentation , deployment, debugging , architecture , etc ...)

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Thomas Hansen

During the 2 month where you 8 developers change 23 lines what did they do ? If the answer is nothing there is a management problem , it shouldn't take more than a day or two to figure that your dev are fooling around

Probably netflixing around from their hammocks is my guess ... :/