Developers ship solutions to problems, which often involves some code. A developer who solves the problem in a fast, cheap, maintainable way with an off-the-shelf package is superior to a developer who solves the same problem in a slow, expensive way with many thousands of lines of unmaintainable code.
> but in general productivity measured in code changes frequency / volume
Oh my. I don't even know what to say to this other than:
- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/536587-measuring-programmin...
> anyone who argues against this is ether on the poor side of this measurement or work in a cash flush environment where no one cared about this
If you can't point to the person on your team who's churning out mountains of crap because they think productivity is measured in lines of code, then...