TY - GEN
T1 - Productivity analysis of Japanese enterprise software development projects
AU - Tsunoda, Masateru
AU - Monden, Akito
AU - Yadohisa, Hiroshi
AU - Kikuchi, Nahomi
AU - Matsumoto, Ken Ichi
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - To clarify the relation between controllable attributes of a software development and its productivity, this paper experimentally analyzed a software project repository (SEC repository), consisting of 253 enterprise software development projects in Japanese companies, established by Software Engineering Center (SEC), Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. In the experiment, as controllable attributes, we focused on the outsourcing ratio of a software project, defined as an effort outsourced to subcontract companies divided by a whole development effort, and on the effort allocation balance among development phases. Our major findings include both larger outsourcing ratio and smaller upstream process effort leads to worse productivity.
AB - To clarify the relation between controllable attributes of a software development and its productivity, this paper experimentally analyzed a software project repository (SEC repository), consisting of 253 enterprise software development projects in Japanese companies, established by Software Engineering Center (SEC), Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. In the experiment, as controllable attributes, we focused on the outsourcing ratio of a software project, defined as an effort outsourced to subcontract companies divided by a whole development effort, and on the effort allocation balance among development phases. Our major findings include both larger outsourcing ratio and smaller upstream process effort leads to worse productivity.
KW - custom software
KW - software productivity
KW - software project repository
KW - subcontract
KW - upstream process
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U2 - 10.1145/1137983.1137988
DO - 10.1145/1137983.1137988
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954019978
SN - 1595933972
SN - 9781595933973
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 14
EP - 17
BT - Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, MSR '06, Co-located with the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2006
T2 - 2006 International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, MSR '06, Co-located with the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2006
Y2 - 20 May 2006 through 28 May 2006
ER -