How do you measure a programmer's performance?
L
personnel?
What is a productive programmer?
Ken Lee
Tabnik) writes:
|> What is a productive programmer?
|>
|> In a recent discussion on the Y2K mailing list, we all agreed
|> There are NO OBJECTIVE STANDARDS.
|>
|> (If you find any, let us all know, huh? <G>)
On a day-to-day basis, I agree that there is no good metric.
On a year-to-year basis, however, there is a very good metric:
productive programmers ship high quality products on time and on
budget.
Yes, programming is generally a team effort, so the above metric
is more easily applied to teams. Still, the members of the team
will know who is pulling their weight and who isn't.
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Ken Lee, ken...@rahul.net, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/
Marty Tabnik
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L> What criteria can be used to measure the performance of corporate
L> IS personnel? What is a productive programmer?
I've been looking since '75.
In a recent discussion on the Y2K mailing list, we all agreed
There are NO OBJECTIVE STANDARDS.
(If you find any, let us all know, huh? <G>)
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Dimitri I. Rakitine
: In article <95100414...@greatesc.com>, marty....@greatesc.com (Marty
: Tabnik) writes:
: |> What is a productive programmer?
: |>
: |> I've been looking since '75.
: |> In a recent discussion on the Y2K mailing list, we all agreed
: |> There are NO OBJECTIVE STANDARDS.
: |>
: |> (If you find any, let us all know, huh? <G>)
: On a day-to-day basis, I agree that there is no good metric.
: On a year-to-year basis, however, there is a very good metric:
: productive programmers ship high quality products on time and on
: budget.
: Yes, programming is generally a team effort, so the above metric
: is more easily applied to teams. Still, the members of the team
: will know who is pulling their weight and who isn't.
So, does that mean that you should be smart enough to bail out
if something goes wrong ? ;-)
Dimitri
Marty Tabnik
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KL> In article <95100414...@greatesc.com>, marty....@greatesc.com (Mart
KL> Tabnik) writes:
KL> |> What is a productive programmer?
KL> |>
KL> |> I've been looking since '75.
KL> |> In a recent discussion on the Y2K mailing list, we all agreed
KL> |> There are NO OBJECTIVE STANDARDS.
KL> |>
KL> |> (If you find any, let us all know, huh? <G>)
KL> On a day-to-day basis, I agree that there is no good metric.
KL> On a year-to-year basis, however, there is a very good metric:
KL> productive programmers ship high quality products on time and on
KL> budget.
That is neither an objective nor a quantifiable metric. {sigh}
KL> Yes, programming is generally a team effort, so the above metric
KL> is more easily applied to teams.
Most of the best programmers I've know have been soloists.
[Although a team is good for the occasional walk-thru.]
KL> Still, the members of the team will know who is
KL> pulling their weight and who isn't.
Alas, politics enters here.
Besides, this "metric" is also subjective.
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Monika Weikel
programmer.
If a programmer does the impossible in record time, he is a good programmer.
Harold Stevens
Are you for real, or did a joker with Sanitation shanghai your toy
while you were out to lunch? As a programmer myself, thank God you
don't review my work or perhaps a visit in your "Health-Care Tech.
Group". You don't have anything to do with nuclear power plants or
Shuttle launches, I sincerely hope. Please, tell me this is just a
troll from the Dilbert Zone.
Regards, Weird
Tom Higgins
->In article <6180...@MVB.SAIC.COM>, Wei...@Fwva.Saic.Com (Monika Weikel) writes:
->|> If a programmer write a peice of code that makes me angry, he is a bad
->|> programmer.
->|> If a programmer does the impossible in record time, he is a good programmer.
->
->Are you for real, or did a joker with Sanitation shanghai your toy
->while you were out to lunch? As a programmer myself, thank God you
->don't review my work or perhaps a visit in your "Health-Care Tech.
->Group". You don't have anything to do with nuclear power plants or
->Shuttle launches, I sincerely hope. Please, tell me this is just a
->troll from the Dilbert Zone.
->
-> Regards, Weird
Harold, I afraid you have been at the terminal to long and you have
become humor impared. I have been a programmer/software engineer
since 1962 and saw the humor, so it isn't because your older or been
at the job to long.
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Harold Stevens
[Snip...]
|> Harold, I afraid you have been at the terminal to long and you have
|> become humor impared.
[Snip...]
God I hope so. Gotta laugh or shriek at something like this.
[Snip...]
Regards, Weird