March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
7h 11m
English
A quick look at a knowledge map reveals the main developer in a codebase, as illustrated by the next figure. Could we use that to identify the top performers?

This strategy will be just as destructive as measuring the number of commits, as all incentives for true improvements are gone. Replace a large chunk of code with a library? No—negative performance. Delete dead code? No—negative performance. Check in those large code-generated blobs? Yes—positive performance.
Some of the best developers I’ve worked with are able to produce more value with less code. A while ago I was part of a project where a small ...
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