On Coffee and Software
On Coffee and Software
Need a morning pick-me-up? SD Times recently posted a column explaining how using proper measurements consistently yields great tasting coffee. Naturally, this corresponds well with software development.
From SD Times: Put down the coffee scoop and open your development dashboard. How efficient are your architects, developers, designs, testers or managers? Do you know? Have you measured source lines of code created per day? Analyzed function points? Looked at defects or security flaws per KSLOC? Counted the requirements added or changed per iteration? Elapsed time per defect remediation? Variation from time or cost estimates per feature? Time spent on non-refactoring rework? Developer time spent on non-development activities?
It’s that sort of attention to detail that probably (more-than-likely) led to this ingenious creation:
