Estimation of Working Hours in Software Development

Occupational stress among information system professionals is gaining more recognition because it may lead to high turnover and less productivity. The present research focuses on software development professionals to examine their occupational stress and demographic characteristics in India. A questionnaire was developed to identify the occupational stress among software development professionals (SDP) using dimensions such as age, average daily working hours, gender, training and nature of work. Data from 156 respondents working in information technology companies in Chennai and Bangalore was collected. It was found that those who were more than 30 years of age have stress due to work family interface. Employees working less than 10 hours daily experience more stress due to fear of obsolescence, individual team interaction, work culture, lack of family support and technical risk propensity. In terms of gender, men and women professionals do not differ in their occupational stress. However, employees who had computer training especially in software programming in addition to their engineering degree face more stress due to fear of obsolescence and technical risk propensity. Software development professionals whose nature of work is purely technical experience more stress because of fear of obsolescence than others. The results are discussed and based on these the relevant implications are suggested.

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The Implementation of 3TZ Model of Software Development

International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications ◽

10.2478/v10177-012-0059-6 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 433-439

Author(s):

Zenon Chaczko ◽

Shahrzad Aslanzadeh ◽

Frank Jiang ◽

Ryszard Klempous

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Global Economy ◽

Working Hours ◽

Development Team ◽

Collaborative Software ◽

Development Teams ◽

The World ◽

Time Zones ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Software Development Teams

Abstract This paper presents the concepts and explores issues related to the 3 Time Zones (3TZ) model of software development in global workspace environment. The 3TZ model itself seeks to take advantages of differences in time zones between places around the world. By engaging software development teams in different regions separated by 8 hours each, it is possible for their combined working hours to cover the whole 24 hours period. Thus, while they each work their normal 8 hour days, together they are able to achieve in 1 day what a single team would achieve in 3 days. They are able to achieve this by passing on their work from one team to the next as one finishes their workday and the next team starts their workday. The 3TZ model of software development revolves around the employment of a software development team distributed in at least 3 different locations around the world in 3 different time zones. If work was passed on from one team to the next and adjacent teams were separated by 8 hours, then 24 hours continuous collaborative software development could be achieved. Though this poses many challenges, when dealt with there is great potential for software to be developed much faster than is possible for a single, collocated development team. In the global economy, we have seen a decrease in the barriers towards communication across the globe along with an increase of service availability to support this communication. Software development is one of the disciplines that is capable of effectively utilizing and benefiting from global collaboration prospect lent by ever increasing capability of information and communication technology. 24 hours continuous development is ideal for application towards tasks that have hard deadlines or require work completed as soon as possible. This article will mainly focus on introducing 24/7 global models that can be applied in cloud environment used in three different time zones.

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Software Development Life Cycle

Computer Programming with C++ ◽

10.1017/9781316534489.021 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 999-1001

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Software Development ◽

Development Life Cycle ◽

Software Development Life Cycle

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Compensatory Coping Through the Extension of Working Hours

Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&O ◽

10.1026/0932-4089/a000285 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 115-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maie Stein ◽

Sylvie Vincent-Höper ◽

Nicole Deci ◽

Sabine Gregersen ◽

Albert Nienhaus

Keyword(s):

Job Demands ◽

Working Hours ◽

Well Being ◽

Leader Member Exchange ◽

Workplace Health ◽

High Quality ◽

Data Analyses ◽

Member Exchange ◽

The Relationship ◽

Advance Knowledge

Abstract. To advance knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the relationship between leadership and employees’ well-being, this study examines leaders’ effects on their employees’ compensatory coping efforts. Using an extension of the job demands–resources model, we propose that high-quality leader–member exchange (LMX) allows employees to cope with high job demands without increasing their effort expenditure through the extension of working hours. Data analyses ( N = 356) revealed that LMX buffers the effect of quantitative demands on the extension of working hours such that the indirect effect of quantitative demands on emotional exhaustion is only significant at low and average levels of LMX. This study indicates that integrating leadership with employees’ coping efforts into a unifying model contributes to understanding how leadership is related to employees’ well-being. The notion that leaders can affect their employees’ use of compensatory coping efforts that detract from well-being offers promising approaches to the promotion of workplace health.

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