Study of task processes for improving programmer productivity
Damodaram Kamma · 2014
In a mature overall process of software development, productivity of a software project considerably depends on the effectiveness with which programmers execute tasks. A task process refers to the processes used by a programmer for executing an assigned task. This research focuses on studying the effect of task processes on programmer productivity. Our approach first identifies high productivity and average productivity programmers, then understands the task processes used by the two groups, the similarities between the task processes used by programmers within a group, and differences between the task processes in the two groups. This study is part of an ongoing study being conducted at a CMMi Level 5 software company. The results so far indicate that there are differences in task processes followed by high and average productivity programmers, and that it may be possible to improve the productivity of average productivity programmers by training them to use the task processes followed by the high productivity programmers.