I’ve met a Project Manager whom I saw ask for LOC to her developers on every single task of a project before having them start working on it. Mainly to estimate how much it’d cost.<p>But is this the best way to measure estimated costs?<p>What are the better alternatives if any?<p>Just off top of my head, I can imagine how copy paste codes can skew the numbers greatly, especially on the front end side.<p>But she insists this is how most top coders do it. I don’t know what to think of that, seems kind of silly if you ask me.