How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
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How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
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Re: How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
#2Applying the Martini Method to coding is not so simple: as has been pointed out countless times, programmer productivity can't be measured in lines of code produced.
But maybe something like
svn diff | wc -l
Re: How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
#3Applying the Martini Method to coding is not so simple: as has been pointed out countless times, programmer productivity can't be measured in lines of code produced. But maybe something like svn diff | wc -l is a good enough stand-in. Replacing a big section of repetitive code with something smaller and more elegant would then count as productivity. Of course, then it becomes an incentive to write dumb, repetitive co…
I use a variant of the Martini Method where I try for at least 2 substantive svn commits a day (not including minor bugfixes or cosmetic issues). I try to do atomic commits, so this correlates very closely with function points. It seems to work quite well; since the beginning of the year I've gone from r569 to r623. It's had a corresponding effect on observed product quality, having gone from essentially a blank webpage to the full editor skeleton, a working game, and several widgets for customizing it.
Re: How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
#4Wrote a follow-up to this one (from a Computer Science perspective) at:
http://amundblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-complete-your-p...