DocumentCode :
2665330
Title :
On measuring programmer team productivity
Author :
Johnson, L.F.
Author_Institution :
New Brunswick Univ., Fredericton, NB, Canada
Volume :
2
fYear :
1998
fDate :
24-28 May 1998
Firstpage :
701
Abstract :
It is difficult to study industrial programmer productivity because of the extreme variance seen among individual programmers and the difficulty of performing controlled experiments. As an alternative to studying individual programmers, we examine the group productivity of programmer teams. We postulate that there is such a thing as average programmer productivity, in a given context. By studying programmer teams, we can eventually obtain measures of the expected performance of an average programmer in a defined context. Differences in project productivity can then be attributed to process characteristics. Existing project data is examined to see how data could be collected to support the idea of a standard programmer
Keywords :
human resource management; personnel; professional aspects; programming; average programmer productivity; group productivity; industrial programmer productivity; programmer team productivity measurement; project productivity; Buildings; Electronic mail; Equations; Industrial control; Lab-on-a-chip; Productivity; Programming profession; Size measurement; Time measurement;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1998. IEEE Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Waterloo, Ont.
ISSN :
0840-7789
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4314-X
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.1998.685594
Filename :
685594
Link To Document :
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