You Never Get Anything

Done around Here

between 9 and 5
Name: M. Faizan Rana
Roll No: 18L-2046
Overtime
Overtime is a fact of life in
software industry
Overtime is not so much means to
increase quantity of work time as
to improve its average quality

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A Policy of Default

▪ California company survey to list best and worst aspects of their

jobs by programmers
▪ Two problems : Poor communication with upper management and
the environment
▪ Changing Environment is not beyond human capacity

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Coding War Games: Observed Productivity Factors

Rules of Coding War Games

▪ Same organization pair members work against each other as well as against all other
pairs
▪ Same work, designing, coding and testing medium sized program
▪ Participants record time spent as going through exercise
▪ After testing is done, product subjected to standard acceptance test
▪ Participants work on same language, tool and same working hours
▪ All results kept confidential

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Benefit of Coding War Games

▪ Individual learning comparison with rest of competitors

▪ Company Benefit is learning how well it does against other
companies
▪ Factors affect productivity

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Individual Differences

▪ First results of coding war games was proof of a huge

difference between competing individuals

▪ Three rules of thumb when you measure variations in

performance over sample of individuals

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Productivity Nonfactors

▪ Language
▪ Years of Experience
▪ Number of Defects
▪ Salary

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Pair Performance

▪ It mattered a lot who your pair mate was.

▪ Best organization with best average worked more than 10 times
faster than organizations
▪ In addition to their speed competitors from the fastest
organization developed code that passed major acceptance test

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Effects of Workplace

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Conclusion

▪ The data prove that better workplace will help people to

perform better

▪ It is observe that “You can get anything around here between 9

to 5“ if you have best workplace environment

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THANKS!
ANY QUESTIONS?

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