I agree with most of the statements you raise, however I think that they generally come from a feeling that metrics in coding are pointless, this is not true.
Take lines of code, on it's own is pointless but over time you would expect it to follow the same sort of pattern for a project with the same developers, but if over a 2week period it doubles you might want to ask questions about why its suddenly grown by a fact of 2.
Or if it's shrinks but a factor of 2, why was there so much code we weren't using.
Many metrics on their own do not provide much interest but over time can cause us to think our examine the causes of such changes in metrics which is the more interesting part.
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I agree with most of the statements you raise, however I think that they generally come from a feeling that metrics in coding are pointless, this is not true.
Take lines of code, on it's own is pointless but over time you would expect it to follow the same sort of pattern for a project with the same developers, but if over a 2week period it doubles you might want to ask questions about why its suddenly grown by a fact of 2.
Or if it's shrinks but a factor of 2, why was there so much code we weren't using.
Many metrics on their own do not provide much interest but over time can cause us to think our examine the causes of such changes in metrics which is the more interesting part.