A importância dos desenvolvedores de software sob a perspectiva dos supervisores

Abstract

Several technology companies use the amount of deliveries as evaluation metric for the software developer s performance. This is the classical concept of productivity, and still is widely used by the companies nowadays. It is also quite common to confuse the concepts of importance and productivity. But developer s importance for the company, and more specifically, for the respective team, is not related only with the amount of line of codes produced. There is a variety of factors that contribute to the relevance of a developer inside an organization. This work aims to map those factors, measure which ones has greater influence in today s companies and to propose an evaluation model of developer s importance that considers more than just deliveries. Sixteen factors, that are more likely to be used in the developer s importance evaluation, were raised. Among those factors, we figured out that some are more relevant than others, and that there is a variation in the most relevant factors when we analyze under the perspective of different companies or teams. We also built a high accuracy classifier that can identify the developer s importance based on a series of factors.