<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/14941" mdate="2007-03-22 00:00:00"> <author>Zhizhong Jiang and Peter Naud茅 and Craig Comstock</author> <title>The Variation of Software Development Productivity 19952005 </title> <pages>692 - 696</pages> <year>2007</year> <volume>1</volume> <number>3</number> <journal>International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14941</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/3</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Software development has experienced remarkable progress in the past decade. However, due to the rising complexity and magnitude of the project the development productivity has not been consistently improved. By analyzing the latest ISBSG data repository with 4106 projects, we discovered that software development productivity has actually undergone irregular variations between the years 1995 and 2005. Considering the factors significant to the productivity, we found its variations are primarily caused by the variations of average team size and the unbalanced uses of the less productive language 3GL. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 3, 2007</index> </article>