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by foobiekr
544 days ago
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Silly and convenient. No one takes the claim that you can’t measure software productivity seriously and everyone simultaneously agrees that simple scalar metrics often fail to show the big picture in any and all disciplines. The rest is just usual software guy hubris and lack of awareness of the discipline. |
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At least three people do, and they are mentioned in the article: the author, his colleague, and Martin Fowler.
I suspect that software productivity (like the productivity of scientists, artists, composers, etc.) on any non-trivial project may be measurable on a scale of years, but not necessarily months or calendar quarters. A larger issue is that productivity is often due to external factors as much as it is to individual effort, and overnight success is often the result of extended periods of limited progress or even repeated failure.