Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering / edited by Caitlin Sadowski, Thomas Zimmermann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadowski, Caitlin, Editor.

Contributor:

Sadowski, Caitlin., Editor.

Zimmermann, Thomas., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Programming languages (Electronic computers).

Management information systems.

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.

Software Management.

Local Subjects:

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.

Software Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXVIII, 310 p. 50 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2019.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA Springer Nature 2019

Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Get the most out of this Open Access foundational reference and improve the productivity of your software teams. This open access book collects the wisdom of the 2017 "Dagstuhl" seminar on productivity in software engineering, a meeting of community leaders, who came together with the goal of rethinking traditional definitions and measures of productivity. The results of their work, Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering, includes chapters covering definitions and core concepts related to productivity, guidelines for measuring productivity in specific contexts, best practices and pitfalls, and theories and open questions on productivity. You'll benefit from the many short chapters, each offering a focused discussion on one aspect of productivity in software engineering. Readers in many fields and industries will benefit from their collected work. Developers wanting to improve their personal productivity, will learn effective strategies for overcoming common issues that interfere with progress. Organizations thinking about building internal programs for measuring productivity of programmers and teams will learn best practices from industry and researchers in measuring productivity. And researchers can leverage the conceptual frameworks and rich body of literature in the book to effectively pursue new research directions.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction to Productivity

Chapter 1. The Mythical 10x Programmer

Chapter 2. No Single Metric Captures Productivity

Chapter 3. Why We Should Not Measure Productivity

Part II: Introduction to Productivity

Chapter 4. Defining Productivity in Software Engineering

Chapter 5. A Software Development Productivity Framework

Chapter 6. Individual, Team, Organization, and Market: Four Lenses of Productivity

Chapter 7. Software Productivity Through the Lens of Knowledge Work

Part III: The Context of Productivity

Chapter 8. Factors That Influence Productivity: A Checklist

Chapter 9. How Do Interruptions Affect Productivity?

Chapter 10. Happiness and the Productivity of Software Engineers

Chapter 11. Dark Agile: Perceiving People as Assets Not Humans

Part IV: Measuring Productivity in Practice

Chapter 12. Developers' Diverging Perceptions of Productivity

Chapter 13. Human-Centered Methods to Boost Productivity

Chapter 14. Using Biometric Sensors to Measure Productivity

Chapter 15. How Team Awareness Influences Perceptions of Developer Productivity

Chapter 16. Software Engineering Dashboard: Types, Risks, and Future

Chapter 17. The COSMIC Method for Measuring the Work-Output Component of Productivity

Chapter 18. Benchmarking: Comparing Apples to Apples

Part V: Best Practices for Productivity

Chapter 19. Removing Software Development Waste to Improve Productivity

Chapter 20. Organizational Maturity: The Elephant Affecting Productivity

Chapter 21. Does Pair Programming Pay Off?

Chapter 22: Fitbit for Developers: Self-Monitoring at Work

Chapter 23: Reducing Interruptions at Word with FlowLight

Chapter 24: Enabling Productive Software Development by Improving Information Flow

Chapter 25: Mindfulness as a Potential Tool for Productivity.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781484242216

1484242211

OCLC:

1101903143