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Jonathan Alexander has over 25 years of experience in software development. He is currently VP of Engineering at Vocalocity, a leader in cloud-based business telecommunications. Previously he built and managed software teams at vmSight, Epiphany, and Radnet. He studied computer science at UCLA, and began his career writing software for author Michael Crichton.
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- Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media (August 31, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449305156
- ISBN-13: 978-1449305154
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.2 x 9.5 inches
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This is a welcomed book to start a detailed conversion about metrics for software developers. The author presents an interesting dilemma: increases in computing power and advances in software industry made a thorough statistical analysis first possible and then indispensable for professional sport teams to succeed. Software industry itself lags behind in measuring what differentiates great software development teams and underperforming ones.
The book borrows heavily, if not exclusively, from sport related stats and presents their counterparts for software teams and team members. Endless sport references ensure stylistic consistency for the whole book and give it a sense of credibility, but they also quite distracting if you're not a sport buff. I also felt the sport analogies could be stretched only so far. There is one significant difference between a sport event and a software development cycle: delay between cause and effect. A goalie pulls across a crease to make an impossible save in an instant; an embarrassing give-away results in a goal in only 3 seconds. Software development is different. Distance between cause and effect may be as long as couple of months. A developer accumulates a lot of points during an iteration, and in doing so makes suboptimal decisions that only re-surface and hurt a project three month down the road. It's important to have metrics to account for these subtleties but the book doesn't address them at all.
"Codermetrics" recognizes that measuring performance of a team and its members cannot happen in a vacuum. The performance of the whole organization, losses and gains in a customer base, and analysis of competition, for instance, plays an important role in a more holistic measurement approach.