Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ames!ads.com!saturn!jgautier From: jgautier@vangogh.ads.com (Jorge Gautier) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: use of metrics Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 15:26:37 GMT References: <4794.284cfad3@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <35346@mimsy.umd.edu> <1991Jun7.074226.12105@netcom.COM> <35364@mimsy.umd.edu> <1991Jun7.201655.12088@netcom.COM> <1991Jun11.205939.9723@visix.com> <1991Jun12.003809.24084@netcom.COM> Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mountain View, CA 94043, +1 (415) 960-7300 Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: jls@netcom.COM's message of Wed, 12 Jun 1991 00:38:09 GMT In article <1991Jun12.003809.24084@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes: > adam@visix.com writes: > >In article <1991Jun7.201655.12088@netcom.COM>, jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes: > >|> >BUT you cannot automagically collect data which is invisible. Kindly explain > >|> >to me how a simple tool will determine the amount of unpaid (unrecorded) time > >|> >spent? > >|> > >|> Duration of login? > >168 hrs/wk. > Duration of login where keystrokes occurred at least once every 30 minutes? Good to see that you're measuring something. Remember that if you measure something, *anything*, something good will happen. (I forget exactly what...) Now everybody, remember to strike that keyboard while you're thinking! -- Jorge A. Gautier| "The enemy is at the gate. And the enemy is the human mind jgautier@ads.com| itself--or lack of it--on this planet." -General Boy DISCLAIMER: All statements in this message are false. "Mommy, where do programs come from?"