June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
37h 55m
English
Productivity has a lot in common with software quality when it comes to project size. At small sizes (2000 lines of code or smaller), the single biggest influence on productivity is the skill of the individual programmer (Jones 1998). As project size increases, team size and organization become greater influences on productivity.

How big does a project need to be before team size begins to affect productivity? In "Prototyping Versus Specifying: a Multiproject Experiment," Boehm, Gray, and Seewaldt reported that smaller teams completed their projects with 39 percent higher productivity than larger teams. The ...
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