Our taxonomy of factors influencing software development productivity is extremely diverse. The technical factors range from detailed product factors, such as execution time constraints, to general environment factors such as the use of software tools. The soft factors have been investigated on the corporate, team, project, and individual levels. For specific contexts, it will be necessary for practitioners to look into each of these factors in more detail. We hope that this chapter can be used as a starting point and checklist for productivity improvement in practice.
