Providing customized and targeted performance improvement recommendations for software development teams

1. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having a computer-readable program stored therein, wherein the computer-readable program, when executed on a computer including at least one hardware processor, causes the computer to:

for each of a plurality of teams,

receive current activities data representing each team member's productivity relating to a product currently being developed; and

receive further current activities data relating to each team member's collaborative interactions; and

perform a cognitive classification of the activities for each of members of each team, and aggregate classifications of team members of each team to generate a respective individual team profile;

generate a respective productivity index function representing desired performance objectives for the team relating to said product currently being developed; and

run a model that is trained using machine learning to determine a most productive team based on historical data comprising individual team profiles, respective said productivity index functions, and product performance data relating to past products developed by respective individual teams;

input said generated individual team profile data and corresponding team productivity index function to said trained model, said trained model correlating said individual team profile to learned positive attributes associated with the most productive development team of said plurality of teams; and

generate using the trained model an output recommending which performance attributes of an individual team can be improved based on the model's correlating that team's data with the learned positive predicting attributes for increasing productivity of that team.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 , when executed on a computer including at least one processor, further causes the computer to:

determine, using the trained model, a quantitative relationship between individual member profiles of a respective team, and said desired performance objectives of said productivity index function for the corresponding team; and

provide based on an analysis of the quantitative relationships, an output indicating one or more key performance indicators to improve and corresponding target improvement values.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 , when executed on a computer including at least one processor, further causes the computer to:

continuously receive data relating to further activities of team members of the individual team over time as said product is being developed, and

use machine learning to train and update, based on received further activities data of individual team members, said model to update individual team profiles for improving said trained model recommendations over time.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the performing of the cognitive classification of activities comprises:

defining using real-time and/or historical activities data, a job role for said team member according; and

determining each productivity index function as a goal for each team member in that member's defined job role based on a business cycle and competitive market landscape.

5. The computer program product of claim 1 , when executed on a computer including at least one processor, further causes the computer to:

receive user defined weights for use in training said model, said weights representing a priority set for a particular business objective or parameter of a product being developed by the team.

6. The computer program product of claim 1 , when executed on a computer including at least one processor, further causes the computer to:

generate a display for actively monitoring performance progress of said team, over time, based on the performance attributes recommended for the individual team to be improved, said generated display indicating relative performance of a performance attribute as compared to other teams.

7. The computer program product of claim 1 , when executed on a computer including at least one processor, further causes the computer to:

receive additional accounting data regarding revenue, amount of sales, and cost per product offering; and

determine, using the trained model, said most productive team based on said individual team profiles, said productivity index function, and said additional accounting data.

8. A system comprising at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, cause the at least one processor to:

for each of a plurality of teams,

receive current activities data representing each team member's productivity relating to a product currently being developed; and

receive further current activities data relating to each team member's collaborative interactions; and

perform a cognitive classification of the activities for each of members of each team, and aggregate classifications of team members of each team to generate a respective individual team profile;

generate a respective productivity index function representing desired performance objectives for the team relating to said product currently being developed;

run a model that is trained using machine learning to determine a most productive team based on historical data comprising individual team profiles, respective said productivity index functions, and product performance data relating to past products developed by respective individual teams;

input said individual team profile data and corresponding team productivity index function data to the trained model, said trained model correlating said individual team profile to learned positive attributes associated with the most productive development team of said plurality of teams; and

generate using the trained model an output recommending which performance attributes of an individual team can be improved based on the model's correlating that team's data with the learned positive predicting attributes for increasing productivity of that team.

9. The system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to:

determine, using the trained model, a quantitative relationship between individual member profiles of a respective team, and said desired performance objectives of said productivity index function for the corresponding team; and

provide based on an analysis of the quantitative relationships, an output indicating one or more key performance indicators to improve and corresponding target improvement values.

10. The system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to:

continuously receive data relating to further activities of team members of the individual team over time as said product is being developed, and

use machine learning to train and update, based on received further activities data of individual team members, said model to update individual team profiles for improving said trained model recommendations over time.

11. The system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to:

receive user defined weights for use in training said model, said weights representing a priority set for a particular business objective or parameter of a product being developed by the team.

12. The system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to:

generate a display for actively monitoring performance progress of said team, over time, based on the performance attributes recommended for the individual team to be improved, said generated display indicating relative performance of a performance attribute as compared to other teams.