Software Engineering
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Some Stability Measures for Software Maintenance
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Automatic mining of change set size information from repository for precise productivity estimation
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process
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Productivity is a crucial concern for most organizations. This is especially true for software development organizations. Although the term productivity is widely used, the difficulty of defining it leads to serious problems in productivity measurement. This paper will attempt to survey some current productivity measures for software development organizations and discuss their deficiencies. A theoretical productivity model that overcomes these deficiencies will also be presented. A practical productivity measure that exceeds current measures by including a quality component will also be described. Although this measure is only a small improvement over contemporary measures, it is a promising step in the direction of better productivity measurement.