Ranking Developers’ Importance Factors Based on Team Leader Perspective

Abstract

Several companies use amount of deliveries as a metric for performance evaluation of developers. However, the productivity of a developer and his importance for the company is not only related to the amount of produced lines of code. There are a variety of factors that can contribute to the relevance of developers for their teams. This paper aims at mapping some of these factors, measuring those that are more important for companies and propose an evaluation model of developer importance that considers more than just deliveries. We have found that some factors are more important than others and that there are minor differences for different companies. We have also developed a high accuracy classifier that can indicate the importance of the developer based on a set of attributes.