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C. Sadowski, T. Zimmermann (eds.)Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_12

12. Developers’ Diverging Perceptions of Productivity

André N. Meyer1 , Gail C. Murphy2, Thomas Fritz1 and Thomas Zimmermann3
(1)
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
(2)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(3)
Microsoft Research, Bellevue, Washington, USA
 

Quantifying Productivity: Measuring vs. Perceptions

To overcome the ever-growing demand for software, software development organizations strive to enhance the productivity of their developers. But what does productivity mean in the context of software development? A substantial amount of work on developer productivity has ...

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