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Rethinking productivity in software engineering / edited by Caitlin Sadowski, Thomas Zimmermann.

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Get the most out of this Open Access 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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Sadowski, Caitlin (Editor), Zimmermann, Thomas, Ph. D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Berkeley, Calif.] : Apress, 2019.
Subjects:
Software engineering.
Management information systems.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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