Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Measuring productivity : no silver bullet

Chapter 1. The mythical 10x programmer

Chapter 2. No single metric captures productivity

Chapter 3. Why we should not measure productivity

Part II. Introduction to productivity

Chapter 4. Defining productivity in software engineering

Chapter 5. A software development productivity framework

Chapter 6. Individual, team, organization, and market: four lenses of productivity

Chapter 7. Software productivity through the lens of knowledge work

Part III. The context of productivity

Chapter 8. Factors that influence productivity : a checklist

Chapter 9. How do interruptions affect productivity?

Chapter 10. Happiness and the productivity of software engineers

Chapter 11. Dark agile : perceiving people as assets, not humans

Part IV. Measuring productivity in practice

Chapter 12. Developers’ diverging perceptions of productivity

Chapter 13. Human-centered methods to boost productivity

Chapter 14. Using biometric sensors to measure productivity

Chapter 15. How team awareness influences perceptions of developer productivity

Chapter 16. Software engineering dashboards: types, risks, and future

Chapter 17. The cosmic method for measuring the work-output

Chapter 18. Benchmarking : comparing apples to apples

Part V. Best practices for productivity

Chapter 19. Removing software development waste to improve productivity

Chapter 20. Organizational maturity: the elephant affecting productivity

Chapter 21. Does pair programming pay off?

Chapter 22. Fitbit for developers: self-monitoring at work

Chapter 23. Reducing interruptions at work with flowlight

Chapter 24. Enabling productive software development by improving information flow

Chapter 25. Mindfulness as a potential tool for productivity