Benchmarking software development productivity

Author

Maxwell, Katrina D. ; Forselius, Pekka

Author_Institution

Datamax, Avon, France

Volume

17

Issue

1

fYear

2000

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

88

Abstract

The article examines a statistical analysis of a productivity variation, involving a unique database containing 206 business software projects from 26 Finnish companies. The authors examine differences in the factors, explaining productivity in the banking, insurance, manufacturing, wholesale/retail, and public administration sectors. The authors provide productivity benchmarking equations that are useful both for estimating expected productivity at the start of a new project and for benchmarking a completed project for each business sector

Keywords

business data processing; software metrics; software performance evaluation; software process improvement; Finnish companies; banking; benchmarking software development productivity; business sector; business software projects; expected productivity; insurance; manufacturing; productivity benchmarking equations; productivity variation; public administration sector; statistical analysis; unique database; wholesale/retail; Banking; Business; Companies; Databases; Equations; Insurance; Manufacturing; Productivity; Programming; Statistical analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.820015

Filename

820015