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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | Characterizing Software Developers by Perceptions of Productivity |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published electronically before print/final form (Epub ahead of print) |
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| Event Title | International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Toronto |
| Event Start Date | November 9 - 2017 |
| Event End Date | November 10 - 2017 |
| Place of Publication | Toronto, CA |
| Abstract Text | Understanding developer productivity is important to deliver software on time and at reasonable cost. Yet, there are numerous definitions of productivity and, as previous research found, productivity means different things to different developers. In this paper, we analyze the variation in productivity perceptions based on an online survey with 413 professional software developers at Microsoft. Through a cluster analysis, we identify and describe six groups of developers with similar perceptions of productivity: social, lone, focused, balanced, leading, and goal-oriented developers. We argue why personalized recommendations for improving software developers’ work is important and discuss design implications of these clusters for tools to support developers’ productivity. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1109/ESEM.2017.17 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:15396 |
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