Abstract :
Software development has seen rapid evolution over the past few decades: software projects are increasing in size and complexity, software companies are merging at a record pace, and open source code is proliferating. Not surprisingly, productivity improvement is a key issue for development organizations. In this article we discuss some views whether software industry´s productivity is declining.
Keywords :
DP industry; productivity; software process improvement; productivity; software complexity; software development; software industry; software process improvement; Application software; Communication industry; Computer industry; Java; Mission critical systems; Outsourcing; Productivity; Programming; Software development management; Software measurement;