Name
Waste Self-Reporting for Software Development Productivity Improvement
Date & Time
Thursday, June 15, 2023, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Marc Sallin Martin Kropp
Description

Although software productivity measurement and improvement have been studied extensively, there has been little research about enabling software development teams to self-report waste to guide productivity improvements. This study aims to develop and implement a concept to enable software development teams to identify and quantify wasteful activities and assess if the amount of reported waste is usable as a proxy for productivity improvement. We created an empirical categorization of waste in software development and developed a self-reporting survey. To validate the survey, developers from a large company located in Switzerland performed waste self-reporting for three weeks. Though, we found little evidence that the software delivery performance of a team correlates with the amount of self-reported waste, the participants valued the self-reporting survey because it helped them recall and identify the encountered waste.

Location Name
Workspace, 2nd floor
Full Address
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 179
Amsterdam 1019 HC
Netherlands
Session Type
Research Paper
submissions_id
6697
Track Color
Blue
Session Length
20
Keywords
Empirical
Software development
Productivity
Efficiency
Waste
Lean
Case Study
Learning Objectives
LSD
Track
Engineering