An Industrial Investigation of Human Factors Effect on Software Productivity: Analyzed by SEM Model?

The software productivity in any software organization can be greatly enhanced if the human factors associated with the company employees are aligned in proper direction of cooperation and unity, among different developments teams working on same software project. In brief, the growth of any software company highly depends on understanding the concept of software productivity, and a means to measure and quantify it. In the present paper we will analyze some critical factors associated with the software development productivity, using the industrial case study data gathered after conducting questionnaire, interviews, etc. in a typical medium sized software firm. The data analysis is done through the Structure equation modeling approach. Next we present the effect of human factors on software development productivity. It’s important to combine both the Human factors and software productivity, in our study so as to arrive at one final conclusion about factors affecting the software development productivity. Finally the paper ends by having discussion in brief about the results, and future work scope about this topic.