The Dictionary Driven Facility - the effect of generalized software on programmer productivity

This paper presents a theoretical framework based on exploratory research so IT managers can plan and procure their organization's IT skills more effectively. Open-ended interviews revealed that IT managers have difficulty in describing specific ...

The movement of information technology IT workers among firms is believed to be an important mechanism by which IT-related innovations diffuse throughout the economy. We use a newly developed source of employee microdata---an online resume database---to ...

Improving the productivity of software development projects is the greatest challenge the computing industry faces in this decade. People are both the bottleneck and the dominant cost in most software development projects. The thousand-fold improvement ...