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CannotMeasureProductivity

Martin Fowler · 29 Aug 2003 · martinfowler.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Software productivity cannot be measured, because there is no way to measure a development team's output.

    Their wordsthe reason we can't measure productivity is because we can't measure output
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Lines of code cannot measure productivity, because better-designed code is shorter.

    Their wordsAny good developer knows that they can code the same stuff with huge variations in lines of code, furthermore code that's well designed and factored will be shorter because it eliminates the duplication.
    Interesting