Software Best Practices

Fully agree that the metrics has better be used for chronological comparison. Well a lot of factors influencing the calculation: projects using different languages: C++, C#, Java project scaling from a hundred lines of code, to 200,000 lines of code; size affecting density projects having different natures...

In my opinion there are two distinct topics here; "the measure" and "what you do with the measure". The Measure This is an interesting measure. It does indeed (from a mathematical point of view) have some desirable qualities. It appears to be scale invariant. That is, it would allow...

It's not enough to see who last checked in the code. If they were working together as in our buddying system, either of them could have checked it out. It's relatively easy to allocate responsibility (=blame?) to one or other developer but measuring effective productivity is much difficult than...