What affects software productivity and how do we improve it? This report examines the current state of the art in software productivity measurement. In turn, it describes a framework for understanding software productivity, some fundamentals of measurement, surveys empirical studies of software productivity, and identifies challenges involved in measuring software productivity. A radical altern...

Because the quantity of work is relatively easy to estimate accurately by using printed drawings or computer-assisted drafting system and specifications, the accuracy of the duration depends largely on the accuracy of construction productivity. It is not difficult to understand why a scheduler without accurate productivity data is unable to produce a reliable cpm schedule. In summary, poor prod...

Performance measurement is always one of the most important tasks of managers, so knowledge management is measurement knowledge, and if we can measure something, we can no doubt control it, and therefore we cannot manage it. In this paper, according to the Malmquist productivity index, an index is used to determine the progress and regress of a unit. This index is defined by the boundary change...

1 What Is Meant by Productivity? 1 The Productivity Dilemma: Balancing Revenues and Costs 2 Shortcomings of a Manufacturing-Oriented Productivity Concept 3 The Interrelationships Between Productivity, Quality, Customer Participation and Demand 6 A Service Productivity Model 8 Is Service Productivity a Productivity Concept? 10 Service Productivity as a Learning Relationship 10 Measuring Service ...

As more and more industries experience the globalisation of business activities, measuring productivity performance has become an area of concern for companies and policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan. This paper provides a non-technical synthesis of the productivity measurement methods used in a series of comparative industry studies. Such studies try to reach beyond standard a...

India is the largest tea producing country in the world and tea contributes 1% of the GDP of the country, apart from providing a direct livelihood to a large number of workers. However, in the recent past the productivity performance of Indian tea industry has not been very satisfactory. India’s predominance in the tea production is on decline and this has already started showing its bad effect...