Influence factors in software productivity a tertiary literature review

Abstract

Software organizations need to increase their productivity to stay competitive. Although there is a lot of research on productivity in software development, software organizations still do not know what are the most significant productivity factors in which they should invest. This paper presents a Tertiary Literature Review (TLR) that aimed to identify and analyze Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) on the influence factors of software productivity reported in the scientific literature. We extracted and classified the influence factors into organizational factors (organizational dependent factors) and human factors (people dependent factors). Using this information, software organizations can improve the productivity of their projects by evaluating the influence factors that best fit their context.