Evaluation of developer organizations

A method of evaluating an organizational partition of a plurality of developers into groups of developers, wherein each developer has a developer identity, and wherein the evaluation is in relation to alterations, by the plurality of developers, of a software code comprising a plurality of parts,

• wherein the software code is associated with a change history register indicative of previous alterations of the parts of the software code, each indication of previous alteration of a part of the software code being associated m the change history register with the developer identity of one or more of the plurality of developers, and
• wherein the software code and the change history register are comprised in storing circuitry,
• the method comprising:
• for each of at least two of the groups of developers and for each of one or more of the parts of the software code:
• automatically parsing, using a controlling circuitry, based on the part, on the developer identities of the developers of the group, and on one or more of the previous alterations—the change history register to acquire, for each developer identity of the group, an association metric indicative of a number of associations between the developer identity and an indication of one of the one or more previous alterations of the part of the software code;
• for each of at least two of the groups of developers:
• automatically determining, using the controlling circuitry, an intra-group collaboration metric based on the association metrics, wherein the intra-group collaboration metric is indicative of a sum over one or more parts of the software code of a number of times two or more developers of the group are involved in one or more previous alterations of the part;
• automatically determining, using the controlling circuitry, an inter-group collaboration metric based on the association metrics, wherein the inter-group collaboration metric is indicative of a sum over one or more parts of the software code of a number of times one or more developers of the group and one or more developers of another group are involved in one or more previous alterations of the part;
• and
• automatically generating, using a signal generating circuitry, a partition evaluation signal based on the intra-group collaboration metric and the inter-group collaboration metric of the at least two groups of developers,
• wherein generating the partition evaluation signal is for determination of a new software architecture based on the partition evaluation signal to increase the intra-group collaboration metric and to decrease the inter-group collaboration metric.