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Title | ||
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An Integrated Approach for Identifying Relevant Factors Influencing Software Development Productivity |
Abstract | ||
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Managing software development productivity and effort are key issues in software organizations. Identifying the most relevant factors influencing project performance is essential for implementing business strategies by selecting and adjusting proper improvement activities. There is, however, a large number of potential influencing factors. This paper proposes a novel approach for identifying the most relevant factors influencing software development productivity. The method elicits relevant factors by integrating data analysis and expert judgment approaches by means of a multi-criteria decision support technique. Empirical evaluation of the method in an industrial context has indicated that it delivers a different set of factors compared to individual data- and expert-based factor selection methods. Moreover, application of the integrated method significantly improves the performance of effort estimation in terms of accuracy and precision. Finally, the study did not replicate the observation of similar investigations regarding improved estimation performance on the factor sets reduced by a data-based selection method. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1007/978-3-540-85279-7_18 | Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
project performance,improved estimation performance,data analysis,effort estimation,integrated approach,data-based selection method,relevant factor,software organization,software development productivity,integrated method,identifying relevant factors influencing,expert-based factor selection method,software development,business strategy,difference set | Journal | abs/1401.5265 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering, volume
5082 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 223-237, Springer Berlin
Heidelberg, 2008 | 1 | 0.38 |
References | Authors | |
16 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Trendowicz | 1 | 271 | 20.17 |
| Michael Ochs | 2 | 41 | 6.20 |
| Axel Wickenkamp | 3 | 11 | 1.92 |
| Jürgen Münch | 4 | 1286 | 147.27 |
| Yasushi Ishigai | 5 | 41 | 3.24 |
| Takashi Kawaguchi | 6 | 1 | 1.06 |