Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

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C. Sadowski, T. Zimmermann (eds.)Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_19

19. Removing Software Development Waste to Improve Productivity

Todd Sedano¹ , Paul Ralph² and Cécile Péraire³

(1)

Pivotal, Palo Alto, California, USA

(2)

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

(3)

Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, Moffett Field, California, USA

 

Introduction

As we have seen in previous chapters, measuring the productivity of software professionals is challenging and hazardous. However, we do not need sophisticated productivity measures to recognize when time and effort are wasted. When we see software engineers rewriting code because the previous version was hastily done, ...