The Influence of Organizational Structure on Software Quality: An Empirical Case Study

INTRODUCTION
Software quality is obtain usually from:
- code coverage
- code churn
- code complexity
- code dependencies
But not from “organizational structure” -> question they want to cover
Conway’s Law: “organizations that design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations
Mythical Man Month: “the product quality is strongly affected by org structure”
RELATED WORK - great section about different papers about the topic
ORGANIZATIONAL METRICS
- Number of Engineers (NOE), who touched the binary and is still in the company
- Number of Ex-Engineer (NOEE)
- Edit Frequency (EF)
- Depth of Master Ownership (DMO): level of the team who owns 75% of edits
- Percentage of Org contributing to the development (PO)
- Level of Organizational Code Ownership (OCO)
- Overall Organization Ownership (OOW)
- Organization Intersection Factor (OIF)
CASE STUDY & RESULTS
- Windows Vista bugs & code change information (from VCS)
- 3404 binaries, > 50M LOC

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