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Productivity of Software Development Teams Based on Social and Human Factors: A Dynamic Conceptual Model

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Social and human factors are relevant aspects for software project management because of their direct relationship with people, their interactions, and their skills and experience in the software development process. The influence of these aspects on the productivity of the software development team is evident and key to the success of projects. This article presents a causal diagram to understand the dynamic nature of software development team productivity as affected by the social and human aspects inherent in the process. Under the system dynamics theory, a causal diagram based on a goal-seeking archetype with delays is proposed. The proposed causal diagram is a conceptual model that aims to facilitate software project management, analyzing productivity from the influence of social and human factors in software development teams.

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We thank Laura Lotero Vélez, professor of the Modeling course of the Ph.D. in Engineering at the University of Medellin for her expertise in System Dynamics.

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    Luz Marcela Restrepo-Tamayo, Gloria Piedad Gasca-Hurtado & Solbey Morillo-Puente

  2. Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

    Liliana Esther Machuca-Villegas

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Restrepo-Tamayo, L.M., Gasca-Hurtado, G.P., Machuca-Villegas, L.E., Morillo-Puente, S. (2022). Productivity of Software Development Teams Based on Social and Human Factors: A Dynamic Conceptual Model. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 470. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04829-6_2

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