[marcosdumay]

Lines of code is a much better proxy than reported productivity.

It stops being a good proxy if you use it to reward or punish developers, compare different languages, or different types of software. But if you don't do those, it's quite good.

Velocity points is worse, because the current culture implies it will be used to reward or punish developers. But it's probably still better than reported productivity.

In fact, reported productivity is probably one of the worst metrics around. People can't even keep track of how long they spend programing, much less of how much they accomplish.

[geekjock]

"Lines of code is a much better proxy than reported productivity."

Researchers who specialize in this field largely disagree with this. Here's a round-up: https://getdx.com/blog/measuring-developer-activity/

[marcosdumay]

You noticed that those quotes are almost all about metrics for rewarding or punishing developers, right?

[esafak]

The point of collecting data is to act on it.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

But in this case the individual devs aren't rewarded/punished