Rahul said:
Is there a way to track productivity through MPP. Meaning, can I assign units
of task that need to be completed in a specific time. For example, I want a
programmer to write 200 lines of code in 8 hours, and suppose he does this in
6 hours, is there a way I can track this information?
You could compare the actual time an activity took against a previously
stored baeline. It must be recognised however that Project is a
scheduling application and those sorts of metrics are normally used to
track the actual plan performance against a baseline.
Maybe your example is just an illustration, but it is an appalling way
to track productivity as it doesn't take any account of the inputs into
the process or other factors that can affect actual work carried out.
These may include the quality and completeness of the baseline design
documentation as well as the other distractions that may abound as well
as the fact that the number of lines of code is itself a meaningless
metric because of the number of different ways that the same functional
code can be written.
Two hundred lines of code in 8 hours corresponds to 25 lines an hour or
two minutes a line which is very high irrespective of where you start from.
