Analysis of Factors that Affect Productivity of Enterprise Software Projects

Analysis of the factors affecting the productivity of enterprise software projects the data of which had many missing values revealed five important findings. (1) Productivity was proportional to the root of the fifth power of test case density and the root of the fifth power of fault density. (2) Developing software with a high level of security or reliability are the main causes of low productivity. (3) Developing software with a document-generation tool or under the condition that the objectives and priorities are very clear, are the main causes of high productivity. (4) The productivity of projects managed by skilled project managers tends to be low because they tend to develop software with largescale and rigorous requirements and try to detect as many faults as possible. (5) It is important to provide an environment with sufficient working space or to use a development framework when developing software that requires a high