Joel on Software : Oh, the emails you’ll get…

The consulting company comes on site, measures a bunch of bogus things like Lines of Code Per Developer, or, if they’re really fancy shmancy, Number of Function Points Per Programmer Per Day. Then they tell the oil company, « Gosh, you’re only getting 73.844% productivity. Pay us another $2,000,000 and we’ll double your productivity. »

Oil company pays the $2m.

Le billet de la semaine, haut la main. J’ai connu des projets où l’on ajoutait des lignes de commentaire vides pour passer les tests de métrique.