Date:         Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:09:25 -0800
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Subject:      Re: ***SAS programming - METRICS
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Ed Heaton wrote:
> I think the bottom line is that there is no easy way to "dumb down" the
> process of evaluating performance of SAS programmers.  As David and
> others have said, measurements of productivity often turn out to measure
> inefficiency.
>
>
> There is no substitute for a supervisor that knows SAS very well and
> looks carefully at the code to evaluate it.

Perhaps the supervisor should be giving such good leadership and
imparting his/her knowledge so well that they just have to check the
code from time to time.