Is the Software Industry's Productivity Declining?

  • Authors:
  • Robert Groth

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Software development has seen rapid evolution over the past few decades: software projects are increasing in size and complexity, software companies are merging at a record pace, and open source code is proliferating. Not surprisingly, productivity improvement is a key issue for development organizations. In this article we discuss some views whether software industry's productivity is declining.