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codesavvy <codesavvy@aol.com> wrote:

> Questions regarding productiviy are bogus? 

Umm, yes they are actually - unless you clearly define what metric
"productivity" is to be measured by. Lines of code per hour? Average
time to release? Total life-cycle cost? Man-hours needed to reach a
certain level of quality? What level? Cost per line of code? What kind
of projects should be measured? What weighting should be given to the
various kinds of projects?

If project A finishes in 2/3 of the time it takes project B to finish
(with identical scores of the results), but the code of A is so shoddy
that any major changes to it means a complete rewrite, whereas with
code B you can just add a couple of modules and write some interface
code - which project was the "most productive"?

Questions about productivity that are as general as yours were, _are_
bogus. (And don't get me started about "synergy").


Leif Roar Moldskred
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