Factors Affecting Software Development Productivity

Canedo, Edna Dias; Santos, Giovanni Almeida

doi:10.1145/3350768.3352491

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“…The existing competitiveness in the software production industry requires shorter delivery times for the products produced and, in such a way, creates the need to increase the teams' performance so that companies can remain in the market [22]. In addition, the number of demands related to software development has grown faster than the number of new professionals, and for this reason, optimizing the productivity of existing professionals is of paramount importance [24].…”

Section: Productivitymentioning

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“…The literature presents several works that, regardless of having this as their goal, report factors that influence the productivity of individuals or teams. Among these factors, the one with the most influence on the present work is that of Canedo and Santos [22], who described the factors that influence productivity in four groups (people, product, organization, and free software projects), containing a list of thirty-seven factors that influence productivity. In this same context, Oliveira et al [14] conducted an empirical study that concluded that the most used metrics for measuring productivity are time, effort, and the number of lines of code.…”

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“…In this work, we use the same organization of the four groups of factors presented by Canedo and Santos [22]. We also add to the list of factors other works, such as the ones developed by Graziotin and Fagerholm [25], Souza et al [34], Murphy et al [35], Sadowski et al [5], and Ramírez-Mora e Oktaba [19], among others.…”

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“…The themes studied during this stage were productivity and gamification. To identify the factors that influence productivity, we conducted a complementary literature review on the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) carried by Canedo and Santos [22].…”

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“…When analyzing the literature, it is possible to see several definitions for the term productivity and factors described as influential on it [5,19,22]. According to Tangen [23], there is no consensus in the industry regarding what productivity means.…”

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Despite efforts to define productivity, there is no consensus in the software industry regarding what the term productivity means and, instead of having only one metric or factor that describes productivity, it is defined by a set of aspects. Our objective is to develop a tool that supports the productivity measurement of software development teams according to the factors found in the literature. We divided these factors into four groups: People, Product, Organization, and Open Source Software Projects. We developed a web system containing the factors that influence productivity identified in this work, called Productive, to support software development teams in measuring their productivity. After developed the tool, we monitored its use over eight weeks with two small software development teams. From the results, we found that software development companies can use the system to support monitoring team productivity. The results also point to an improvement in productivity while using the system, and a survey applied to users demonstrates the users’ positive perception regarding the results obtained. In future work, we will monitor the use of the tool and investigate the users’ perceptions in other project contexts.

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Gamification strategy to promote social and human factors in the training of software engineers: A case study

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2024

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Software Engineering is a discipline frequently reflected in training strategies. This discipline requires certain levels of abstraction to achieve the competencies and skills necessary for the professional development of future software developers. The software industry increasingly demands that professionals in this discipline have social and human skills to achieve highly productive teams. Therefore, these teams should respond to such demands in a world with increasing dependence on technology and the development of software products. Traditional pedagogical strategies often need help adapting to the new generations of software engineers and responding in a limited way to the demands of teaching processes related to this discipline. This article evaluates a gamification‐based strategy designed for the Software Engineering course at a Latin American higher education institution. This course addressed software project management as a training objective. Such a strategy was designed with a gamification‐based model to influence the productivity of software development teams. The results of using the model show its efficiency and usefulness as a guide for implementing new strategies based on gamification that considers social and human factors (SHFs) to intervene in the productivity of software development teams. The challenges designed in the proposal presented managed to promote SHFs in the participants, according to the analysis of the prepared case study. According to these results, the factors considered relate to skills and experience in managing software development projects, motivation, and communication. The activities executed by the participants in the context of the case study strengthened the human side of the team and allowed its growth to achieve its objectives.

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Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering

Suárez-Albanchez

Vizcaíno

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The objective of this study is to analyze the current perspective as regards knowledge related to what causes stress or motivates developers, how these two aspects are related to each other, and how this in turn affects their performance in the sphere of Global Software Development and how these can be controlled. This paper presents the results obtained after conducting a systematic mapping study of literature in order to analyze how stress, motivation, and performance affect the project members in Global Software Development teams. We carried out a systematic mapping of published studies dealing with stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering. A total of 118 papers dealing with this subject were found. The literature analyzed provided a relatively significant quantity of data referring to the impact that the characteristics of distributed software development projects have on the performance and productivity of teams, along with the actions taken to improve that performance. However, when focusing on the analysis of the impact of this type of projects on team members' motivation, and on the actions that can be taken to improve that motivation, we discovered that the number of works decreases considerably and that works referring to the impact of this kind of development on developers' stress were virtually non‐existent, as were those concerning ways in which to improve that stress. We are, therefore, of the opinion that it is necessary to carry out in‐depth research into the aspects of working in distributed teams that may have a negative impact on developers' levels of motivation and stress, along with what could be beneficial in order to improve levels of motivation and decrease levels of stress.

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Factors Affecting Software Development Productivity

Cited by 28 publications

References 55 publications

Tool for Measuring Productivity in Software Development Teams

Tool for Measuring Productivity in Software Development Teams

Gamification strategy to promote social and human factors in the training of software engineers: A case study

Stress, motivation, and performance in global software engineering

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