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A software process engineering approach to improving software team productivity using socioeconomic mechanism design

Yilmaz, Murat orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2446-3224 and O'Connor, Rory orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2446-3224 (2011) A software process engineering approach to improving software team productivity using socioeconomic mechanism design. Software Engineering Notes, 36 (4). pp. 1-5. ISSN 0163-5948

Abstract
Software development involves teams of interconnected individuals who are encouraged to work collectively in a knowledge and communication network to produce software artifacts. At the social level, the interactions of these participants and their ability to cooperate are important for improving the productivity of teams and organizations. Soft- ware development is a knowledge and human intensive activity. It is therefore not surprising to discover that recent contributions in software development have repeatedly asserted the critical role of people in software development efforts. However, existing approaches to software development fail to fully exploit the importance of social and intellectual capital that has been highlighted in the fields of economics and sociology. Leveraging the existing approaches from economics and sociology and applying to software development can assist software organizations in maximizing their return on investment. For example, by applying one such approach, mechanism design, we can improve and model the organization’s total productivity based on social aspects affecting productivity (i.e. social productivity). Social productivity involves targeting the quality of social interactions in order to bring about productivity improvements. Furthermore, by optimizing the social structure and welfare of a software organization, we aim to improve soft- ware team collaboration, and maximize the team productivity.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Software process; team
Subjects:Computer Science > Software engineering
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Lero: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Publisher:ACM
Official URL:http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2020976.2020998
Copyright Information:© ACM, 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Software Engineering Notes, {VOL36, ISS4, (2010)} http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2020976.2020998
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:16731
Deposited On:11 Jan 2012 11:50 by Rory O'connor . Last Modified 23 Oct 2019 13:19
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