Get the most out of this foundational reference and improve the productivity of your software
teams. This open access book collects the wisdom of the 2017 Dagstuhl seminar on productivity
in software engineering a meeting of community leaders who came together with the goal of
rethinking traditional definitions and measures of productivity. The results of their work
Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering includes chapters covering definitions and
core concepts related to productivity guidelines for measuring productivity in specific
contexts best practices and pitfalls and theories and open questions on productivity. You'll
benefit from the many short chapters each offering a focused discussion on one aspect of
productivity in software engineering. Readers in many fields and industries will benefit from
their collected work. Developers wanting to improve their personal productivity will learn
effective strategies for overcoming common issues that interfere with progress. Organizations
thinking about building internal programs for measuring productivity of programmers and teams
will learn best practices from industry and researchers in measuring productivity. And
researchers can leverage the conceptual frameworks and rich body of literature in the book to
effectively pursue new research directions. What You'll Learn Review the definitions and
dimensions of software productivity See how time management is having the opposite of the
intended effect Develop valuable dashboards Understand the impact of sensors on productivity
Avoid software development waste Work with human-centered methods to measure productivity Look
at the intersection of neuroscience and productivity Manage interruptions and context-switching
Who Book Is For Industry developers and those responsible for seminar-style courses that
include a segment on software developer productivity. Chapters are written for a generalist
audience without excessive use of technical terminology.
