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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-Setting |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0098-5589 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Number | 9 |
| Page Range | 1872 - 1885 |
| Date | 2021 |
| Abstract Text | Software developers are generally interested in developing better habits to increase their workplace productivity and well-being, but have difficulties identifying concrete goals and actionable strategies to do so. In several areas of life, such as the physical activity and health domain, self-reflection has been shown to be successful at increasing people's awareness about a problematic behavior, motivating them to define a self-improvement goal, and fostering goal-achievement. We therefore designed a reflective goal-setting study to learn more about developers' goals and strategies to improve or maintain good habits at work. In our study, 52 professional software developers self-reflected about their work on a daily basis during two to three weeks, which resulted in a rich set of work habit goals and actionable strategies that developers pursue at work. We also found that purposeful, continuous self-reflection not only increases developers' awareness about productive and unproductive work habits (84.5%), but also leads to positive self-improvements that increase developer productivity and well-being (79.6%). We discuss how tools could support developers with a better trade-off between the cost and value of workplace self-reflection and increase long-term engagement. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1109/TSE.2019.2938525 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:18210 |
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