Empirical findings on team size and productivity in software development

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 562-570

  Rodriguez D ^a,b   Sicilia, M A ^a   Garcia E ^a   Harrison, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effort estimation datasets; ISBSG repository; Productivity; Team size

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; ERROR PRONES; INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE BENCHMARKING STANDARDS GROUP; ISBSG REPOSITORY; MISSING VALUES; PROJECT PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TEAM SIZE;

HARDWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84857361268     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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