1. A system for monitoring production of computer program code, the system comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled with and readable by the processor and having stored therein a sequence of instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to execute an integrated development environment (IDE) for the production of the computer program code and a component, integrated into the integrated development environment, adapted to monitor whether one or more sections of the computer program code are generated automatically or manually, so as to determine a measure of the volume of computer program code manually produced by a developer, compute a first measure of the volume of computer program code manually produced by a developer that is dependent on the programming language of the computer program code, and scale the first measure to provide a final measure independent of the programming language.