> Joel is not a big fan of software metrics in general. > He is concerned that developers might end up writing code > and allocating their time to satisfy a specific metric > rather than writing the best possible code and allocating > the time based on more important criteria. He narrated a > couple of stories about horrific metrics misuse that he > witnessed first-hand and was concerned that - in the wrong > hands - the CRAP metric could be used in, say, performance > reviews: You code is too crappy. You're > fired!
It's funny that Joel reacts to the CRAP metric in that way. When I read about the new feature in FogBugz - Evidence-Based Scheduling - one of my reactions was: What if management decides to use the computed velocity in performance reviews?
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