Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia (Aug 2014)

Structural model to evaluate the competence of the software developer

  • José Luis Cantú-Mata,
  • José Segoviano Hernández,
  • Roberto Penilla-Leal,
  • Raúl de Jesús Zurita-Alarcón

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.redin.17298
Journal volume & issue
no. 73

Abstract

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Every timemore and more companies are turning to hiring service providers for “not central” activities in the organization. The purpose of the study is to develop and validate a structural model to assess the skills of software developer. The evaluation was performed by the service quality provided from the client’s perspective, the results are 32 companies hiring the software Outsourcing service. SMART-PLS software was used to perform statistical analysis to obtain an R2 of 0.836 and 0.641 for the variables: Preparation employee-company (Y1) and updated competent staff (Y2), respectively.

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