Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

ApressOpen title Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering 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.

Table of Contents

• The Mythical 10x Programmer
• No Single Metric Captures Productivity
• Why We Should Not Measure Productivity
• Defining Productivity in Software Engineering
• A Software Development Productivity Framework
• Individual, Team, Organization, and Market: Four Lenses of Productivity
• Software Productivity Through the Lens of Knowledge Work
• Factors That Influence Productivity: A Checklist
• How Do Interruptions Affect Productivity?
• Happiness and the Productivity of Software Engineers
• Dark Agile: Perceiving People As Assets, Not Humans
• Developers’ Diverging Perceptions of Productivity
• Human-Centered Methods to Boost Productivity
• Using Biometric Sensors to Measure Productivity
• How Team Awareness Influences Perceptions of Developer Productivity
• Software Engineering Dashboards: Types, Risks, and Future
• The COSMIC Method for Measuring the Work-Output Component of Productivity
• Benchmarking: Comparing Apples to Apples
• Removing Software Development Waste to Improve Productivity
• Organizational Maturity: The Elephant Affecting Productivity
• Does Pair Programming Pay Off?
• Fitbit for Developers: Self-Monitoring at Work
• Reducing Interruptions at Work with FlowLight
• Enabling Productive Software Development by Improving Information Flow
• Mindfulness as a Potential Tool for Productivity

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