MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

• Main Authors: Goparaju Purna Sudhakar, Ayesha Farooq, Sanghamitra Patnaik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University in Belgrade 2012-02-01
• Series: Serbian Journal of Management
• Subjects: Software Productivity; Team Productivity; Productivity Factors; Software Teams; Managing Information Systems Projects
• Online Access: http://www.sjm06.com/SJM%20ISSN1452-4864/7_1_2012_May_1_170/7_1_65-75.pdf

This paper gives an exhaustive literature review of the techniques and models available tomeasure the productivity of software development teams. Definition of productivity, measuringindividual programmer’s productivity, and measuring software development team productivity arediscussed. Based on the literature review it was found that software productivity measurement canbe done using SLOC (Source Lines of Code), function points, use case points, object points, andfeature points. Secondary research findings indicate that the team size, response time, taskcomplexity, team climate and team cohesion have an impact on software development teamproductivity. List of factors affecting the software development team productivity are studied andreviewed.