[Galaxeblaffer]

Yea because churning out or changing code is the only imaginable productive thing a software engineer can do ? what about planning, helping others out, researching all this stuff is super difficult to measure. It all depends on the work, the team and the size of the company i guess.

[physicsguy]

I totally agree with you, but there've been employees I've managed in the past who loved to go off and get distracted with anything they judged "useful", often at the expense of their actual work. That's something to be managed rather than measured by metrics.

[ookblah]

did i say that? that's why i said it's an indicator, one of many. if you are producing zero code vs your peers and your job is to program it doesn't mean you are unproductive, but at least someone can talk to you about it and clarify vs. just guessing with zero data.