Benchmarking Software-Development Productivity

  • Authors:
  • Katrina D. Maxwell;Pekka Forselius

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This article examines a statistical analysis of a productivity variation involving a unique database containing 206 business software projects from 26 Finnish companies. The authors examine differences in the factors explaining productivity in the banking, insurance, manufacturing, wholesale/retail, and public administration sectors. The authors provide productivity benchmarking equations that are useful both for estimating expected productivity at the start of a new project and for benchmarking a completed project for each business sector.