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Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering
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Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

by Caitlin Sadowski
May 2019
Beginner
320 pages
8h 16m
English
Apress
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© The Author(s) 2019
C. Sadowski, T. Zimmermann (eds.)Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_8

8. Factors That Influence Productivity: A Checklist

Stefan Wagner1  and Emerson Murphy-Hill2
(1)
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
(2)
Google, Sunnyvale, California, USA
 

Introduction

In all areas of professional work, there are a lot of factors that influence productivity. Especially in knowledge work, where we do not have easily and clearly measurable work products, it is difficult to capture these factors. Software development is a type of knowledge work that comes with even more specific difficulties, as software developers deal nowadays with incredibly large and complex systems. ...

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