Several companies use the amount of deliveries as a metric of performance evaluation of the developer. However, the productivity of a developer and his importance for the company is not only related to the amount of lines of code produced. There are a variety of factors that can contribute to the relevance of a developer for a team. This paper aims at mapping some of these factors, measuring those that are more important for companies and propose an evaluation model of developer importance that

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... considers more than just deliveries. We have found that some factors are more important than others and that there are minor differences for different companies. We have also developed a high accuracy classifier that can indicate the importance of the developer based on a set of attributes.