I have observed that many lessons from software development experience can be applied to management of software development teams and that the opposite is also true — many lessons from management of ...

Measuring the productivity of product development is a complex and multi-faceted task, significantly different from manufacturing operations. Output from manufacturing is increasingly automated and ...

When you look at productive output from a software development team, there’s one factor that almost always predicts problems. You can have top talent; an outstanding idea; great agile process. And yet ...

If you’re using software development productivity metrics to evaluate developer performance, then you’re doing it wrong. For best results, tie them to business outcomes. I cringe when development ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. What is “Effectiveness”? It is the degree to which something is successful in producing the desired result.