[learc83]

We can't even come up with an objective way to score software itself. So how in the world are we going to go even deeper and score the process and the people that create it?

Sarah and Bob make clocks, but sometimes they make hats, and sometimes they make screws, or hammers, or lamps. And sometimes the things they make get sold to customers, but sometimes other employees take them home, sometimes they make parts for each other to use when making bigger projects, and often they help each other and other employees out on unrelated projects. And sometimes they do repairs too. Oh yeah they also paint portraits that hang up around the office.

Try coming up with a measurement for their individual productivity that is easy enough to be useful, hard to game, and cheap enough to make it worth the price.

The first step is to figure out how to measure the value of all the stuff they make...