>The opening paragraph:
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>The study, released here last week, was prepared by researcher Howard Rubin for Meta Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn. Using a standard measure of IT productivity based on the number of lines of code developed by a programmer per year, the study pegged U.S. programmer productivity at an average of 7,700 lines of code, compared with 16,700 lines for non-U.S. programmers.
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>tells you how flawed the analysis. Gee, in 2.6 I could generate 100+ lines of code with the screen builder.
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>The true value of a developer IMHO: "How much value have you delivered?"
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>What a waste of bandwidth....
Agreed.
I have run into another software metric, "action points" used by Whil Hentzen and co. I would be interested to hear from anyone using this approach(or any other systematic one) to estimate the size and cost of their projects. So far the action points metric (how many things does this app do) is the best measure I have found of the value of an application.

Perhaps this would be a more useful discussion ?

Ned