TOWARDS IMPROVING SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFECTIVENESS

Abstract

Computer software has become an engine that drives business decision making process. Studies on the challenges facing softwaredevelopment organizations in Nigeria revealed certain human-centric and environmental factors, coupled with unwillingness bymost software project managers to invest in recent technologies. These resulted in hostilities and chaos in such organizations,translating to low productivity and unusable software products. In this paper, we critically examined some actions taken at theUniversity of Benin to make software developers more productive, effective and satisfied.