• DOI:10.1145/1368088.1368160
Corpus ID: 5048618

The influence of organizational structure on software quality

@article{Nagappan2008TheIO,
  title={The influence of organizational structure on software quality},
  author={N. Nagappan and B. Murphy and V. Basili},
  journal={2008 ACM/IEEE 30th International Conference on Software Engineering},
  year={2008},
  pages={521-530}
}

N. Nagappan, B. Murphy, V. Basili

Published 2008

Computer Science

2008 ACM/IEEE 30th International Conference on Software Engineering

Often software systems are developed by organizations consisting of many teams of individuals working together. Brooks states in the Mythical Man Month book that product quality is strongly affected by organization structure. Unfortunately there has been little empirical evidence to date to substantiate this assertion. In this paper we present a metric scheme to quantify organizational complexity, in relation to the product development process to identify if the metrics impact failure-proneness… CONTINUE READING

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