-2000 Lines of code
10 months ago
- #productivity metrics
- #Bill Atkinson
- #software development
- In early 1982, the Lisa software team aimed to ship software within six months.
- Managers introduced a weekly form tracking engineers' lines of code written.
- Bill Atkinson, a key developer, opposed measuring productivity by lines of code.
- He optimized Quickdraw's region calculation, making it six times faster and saving 2,000 lines of code.
- When submitting his form, Bill entered '-2000' for lines of code written.
- Managers eventually stopped requiring Bill to fill out the form.