When FP measurement methods are different between the same functional size projects, FPs are different between them. FP measurement methods are often customized by software vendors. To reinforce accountability for a customer, FP based on a customized method should be transformed to FP based on a standard method. So we proposed two derivation methods of FP transformation formulas. One method is ...

Knowledge generation is key to economic growth, and scientific prizes are designed to encourage it. But how does winning a prestigious prize affect future output? We compare the productivity of Fields medalists (winners of the top mathematics prize) to that of similarly brilliant contenders. The two groups have similar publication rates until the award year, after which the winners’ productivit...

Mobile devices and mobile applications have a significant effect on the present and on the future of the software industry. The diversity of mobile platforms necessitates the development of the same mobile application for all major mobile platforms, which requires considerable development effort. Mobile application developers are multiplatform developers, but they prioritize the platforms, ther...

Programmer productivity is a major concern in the development of complex DSP and SDR applications. As most classical DSPs are programmed in assembly language, it takes a large software effort to develop an application. For modern speech coders it may take up to nine months or more before the application performance is known. Then, an intensive period of design verification ensues. This extended...

Property right literature suggests that ownership of the output of a joint research is assigned so as to enhance the research productivity, given that a research contract is significantly incomplete. This paper examines this view, exploiting rich information at the project level hand collected through a large scale inventor survey in Japan. We have found that the contribution of non-contractibl...

Turf wars in organizations commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to share jurisdiction over a project with other agents. Agents with jurisdiction decide...

Using behavioral experiments, we examined the impact of dispensability of effort and salience of feedback on worker productivity and how they can be managed via queueing design. We considered two queue design features: queue structure that can either be parallel queues (multiple queues with a dedicated server per queue) or a single queue (a single pooled queue served by multiple providers); and...

This paper addresses the problem of reliably measuring productivity gains by professional translators working with a machine translation enhanced computer assisted translation tool. In particular, we report on a field test we carried out with a commercial CAT tool in which translation memory matches were supplemented with suggestions from a commercial machine translation engine. The field test ...

Measurement is an integral part of total quality management and process improvement strategies. This paper describes our experiences using the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) paradigm to help design a company-wide measurement program for Engineering Ingegneria S.p.A., an Italian software house. The introduction of the measurement program was supported by the Commission of the European Communities wi...

This paper examines whether the Peter Principle operates in a large hierarchical financial sector firm. We use a method that allows for variation in optimal effort over stages in the hierarchy, which suggests, at least in the organisation we study, that the mean fall in performance actually understates the effect of the Peter Principle.