Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4842-4220-9
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 641 g

Get the most out of this 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.
What You'll Learn - Review the definitions and dimensions of software productivity

- See how time management is having the opposite of the intended effect

- Develop valuable dashboards

- Understand the impact of sensors on productivity

- Avoid software development waste

- Work with human-centered methods to measure productivity

- Look at the intersection of neuroscience and productivity

- Manage interruptions and context-switching

Who Book Is For
Industry developers and those responsible for seminar-style courses that include a segment on software developer productivity. Chapters are written for a generalist audience, without excessive use of technical terminology.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zimmermann, Thomas

Sadowski, Caitlin

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

The authors and chapters of this book derive from a recent Dagstuhl seminar on software productivity and represent the wisdom of leading software engineers and researchers.
Editors:Caitlin Sadowski is a Software Engineer at Google with a team focused on understanding engineer productivity. She is also a committee member for many the top software engineering conferences including the flagship ICSE and FSE, OOPSLA, and PLDI.
Thomas Zimmermann is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research with more than 50 related publications. He has served as Co-Editor in Chief of Empirical Software Engineering and on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software, and Software: Evolution and Process. He is a committee member for top software engineering conferences and previously edited books on recommender systems (Springer) and data science in software engineering (Morgan Kaufmann).