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Incremental development productivity decline

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PROMISE '13: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2499393.2499403

Published: 09 October 2013 Publication History

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Incremental models are now being used by many organizations in order to reduce development risks while trying to deliver the product on time. It has become the most common method of software development with characteristics that influences the productivity of projects.

This paper introduces a phenomenon called Incremental Development Productivity Decline (IDPD) that is presumed to be present in all incremental software projects to some extent.

Different ways of measuring productivity are presented and evaluated in order to come to a definition or set of definitions that is suitable to these kinds of projects.

Based on their coherence and other common characteristics, incrementally developed projects are split into several major categories.

Following this, several major projects are used as case studies in order to find out whether IDPD can be proven to exist.

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Incremental development productivity decline
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Implementation management
        Pricing and resource allocation
      2. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management

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PROMISE '13: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/2499393

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3636243.3636253
Chen CAlfayez RSrisopha KShi LBoehm B(2017)Evaluating Human-Assessed Software Maintainability MetricsSoftware Engineering and Methodology for Emerging Domains10.1007/978-981-10-3482-4_9(120-132)Online publication date: 17-Jan-2017
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Moazeni RLink DBoehm BZhang HHuang LRichardson I(2014)COCOMO II parameters and IDPD: bilateral relevancesProceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Software and System Process10.1145/2600821.2600847(20-24)Online publication date: 26-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2600821.2600847
Moazeni RLink DChen CBoehm BZhang HHuang LRichardson I(2014)Software domains in incremental development productivity declineProceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Software and System Process10.1145/2600821.2600830(75-83)Online publication date: 26-May-2014
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