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Productivity

The importance of software project productivity

Improvements to software productivity can help to produce better project outcomes. This is achieved through: lower costs and increased revenue, successfully meeting delivery dates, improved quality, greater project control and opportunities for innovation and improvement.

Improve your software project productivity

Read articles on project productivity, by leading software metrics experts.

Analysis of Application Groups

28 April 2023

This short paper compares the productivity of projects that have different application types, from the ISBSG Repository. The application types are: Business Applications, Real-Time Applications, Mathematically-Intensive Application and Infrastructure Software.

Project Cost per FP

2 March 2023

‘Cost per Function Point’ is an industry best practice to ensure that both the customer and the supplier benefit from high productivity. This short paper analyzes the cost and functional size of projects from the ISBSG Repository.

Cobol Projects

6 December 2022

We examine number of COBOL Projects submitted to the ISBSG Repository, since the year 2000. The median Project Delivery Rates are compared to determine whether there has been an in increase in productivity for COBOL projects.

No-Code Low-Code

4 October 2022

“Low Code/No Code” is a new development paradigm. It shortens re-development times (and costs) when an organization decides to move software system/application from old, legacy architecture to a newer, more maintainable one.

Using ISBSG Data to Measure Team Performance

18 August 2022

Calculate key 'market average' metrics from ISBSG data. These metrics can then be used to benchmark your team's performance.

Productivity per Industry Sector

5 July 2022

Learn more about the productivity of medium-sized projects in various industry sectors.

Productivity Improvements for Java Projects

7 June 2022

Java is a powerful, programming language used for many applications. This short paper compares the productivity of different-sized Java projects.

Performance Metrics in Contracts

1 June 2022

By incorporating standard metrics into IT contracts, it becomes possible to measure the performance of the vendor. Find out more about the key performance indicators (KPIs) that can be used in IT contracts, in our ISBSG short paper.

Productivity of .NET projects

1 June 2022

.NET is a popular developer platform used to build applications. .NET productivity data from the ISBSG Repository is analysed in a short paper.

Productivity Trends

1 June 2022

This short paper analyses the data from the ISBSG Repository for software project productivity trends.

Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence

31 May 2022

This short paper examines the delivery speed of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence projects, from the ISBSG Repository.

Analysis of Delivery Speed

31 May 2022

This short report focuses on software written in Java, a widely used programming language used for a variety of popular applications. The delivery speed of Java applications, from the ISBSG repository, will be examined.

Productivity Improvements

25 January 2022

The ISBSG Development and Enhancement Repository contains data for software projects that can track productivity improvements.

Software Productivity Versus Speed

23 August 2021

The Project Delivery Rate of a project expresses how many effort hours were spent, on average, to create one function point. Speed expresses how many function points are created per calendar month. So there is a relationship since both metrics refer to effort and time. The question is: “How are these metrics related?”

Low-code Project Productivity

23 August 2021

A high-level analysis is given of the productivity differences between traditional languages, such as Java or .Net and low code technologies (i.e. drag and drop).

Java Project Productivity

23 August 2021

Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. There is a lot of available data of Java projects in the 2021 ISBSG Development & Enhancement repository - over 2000 projects. This short paper examines the productivity of these projects.