Supplementary Material for the Paper "Characterizing Software Developers by Perceptions of Productivity"

<p>Contains the survey questions and preprint for the paper "Characterizing Software Developers by Perceptions of Productivity" submitted to ESEM'17. </p> <p>Please contact Thomas Zimmermann (tzimmer@microsoft.com) in case you have any questions.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Paper Abstract:</strong></p> <p>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 discuss design implications of these clusters for tools to support developers’ productivity.