Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering
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Author(s): Caitlin Sadowski, Thomas Zimmermann
Format: Paperback
Publisher: APress, United States
Imprint: APress
ISBN-13: 9781484242209, 978-1484242209
Synopsis
Get the most out of this foundational reference and improve the productivity of your software teams. This open access bookcollects 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 coveringdefinitions and core concepts related toproductivity, 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 strategiesfor overcoming common issues that interfere with [url] thinking about building internal programs for measuring productivity ofprogrammers and teams will learn best practices from industry and researchers inmeasuring productivity. Andresearchers can leverage the conceptual frameworks and rich body of literature in thebook 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 asegment on software developer [url] are written for a generalist audience, without excessive use of technical terminology.
