Software Engineering discussion

Although the data is very dated, this brief discussion of programmer productivity is a reminder that in many areas of technology, we have not progressed much. I don't have recent data, but I wouldn't be surprised if the ~1500 LOC/PY figure is still the typical productivity for large projects. What has changed (described by the last two bullet points in the chapter) is the higher level of abstraction of what a "Line of Code" means.

My development department does planning as 6 hours per day as full time development (not including vacation time) eventhough people often work much more than 8 hour days. We only plan about 2-3 weeks at a time, so not planning for vacation too far ahead (isn't great but) works for us. Alot of the ideas in this chapter are similar in many ways to projects I've worked on.

I agree the lines/time metrics are likely to have greatly changed since this chapter was authored.

I liked the part that scoffs at using code/time as the estimator due to previous chapters mentioning that coding is half or less of the total effort.