[4-2]Organizational Volatility and Developer Productivity

Date:2009-03-30

Title：Organizational Volatility and Developer Productivity
Speaker：Dr. Audris Mockus, Research scientist of Avaya Labs Research

Time：10:00 am, April 2 

Venue：Lecture room, State Key Lab of Computer Science, Level 3 Building #5

Abstract:
The key premise of an organization is to allow more efficient production, including production of software. To achieve that, an organization defines roles and reporting relationships. Therefore, changes in organization’s structure are likely to affect organization’s productivity. We investigate several measures of organization and organizational change and relate them to developer productivity. We find that the proximity to an organizational change is strongly associated with a reduced developer productivity.

Biography of Dr. Audris Mockus:

http://www.research.avayalabs.com/gcm/usa/en-us/people/all/mockus.htm

Audris Mockus designs data mining methods to summarize and augment the system evolution data, interactive visualization techniques to inspect, present, and control the systems, and statistical models and optimization techniques to understand the systems. Audris Mockus received B.S. and M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1988. In 1991 he received M.S. and in 1994 he received Ph.D. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. He works at Software Technology Research Department of Avaya Labs. Previously he worked at Software Production Research Department of Bell Labs. Audris Mockus was a PC co-chair of the Metrics’2004 and of the Global Software Engineering’07 and served on the PC of several conferences, including ICSE. He has co-organized the workshop on Mining Software Repositories and serves on the editorial board of the TSE and of the Empirical Software Engineering.