Fatores de influência na produtividade de desenvolvedores de organizações de software

Abstract

Software development has been characterized in essence as a human activity and software organizations must invest in improving the productivity of their developers to stay competitive. In the scientific literature, hundreds of influencing factors on developer productivity have been identified. Despite of this, software organizations still do not know what the most significant factors are. In addition, each organization must consider productivity factors related to its own context. Thus, the choice of effective practices for the improvement of its developers’ productivity must be based on the preponderant factors, that exert greater influence, on the developers’ productivity within the organization context. Therefore, in this research we investigated productivity metrics and factors of influence in the developers’ productivity, categorized in technical, human and organizational factors. Qualitative and quantitative studies were carried out in the search for answers with practical and applicable results in real software development organizations. Following the accomplishment of the research adopted methodology, applied directly in the industry, a series of important results were produced on the metrics for evaluation of developer’s productivity and on the influence of technical, human and organizational factors. With this, we hope to contribute to the body of knowledge in Software Engineering about the metrics and factors of developer’s productivity located in software development organizations.