Understanding and Measuring Developer Productivity

Meet the Speakers

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  Ciera Jaspan

  Ciera Jaspan co-leads Engineering Productivity Research, a cross-disciplinary team that seeks to understand what makes developers happy and productive. The team runs mixed-methods research studies to understand the factors that influence developer productivity, creates proxy measures that are accurate reflections of these factors, and advises developer tool teams on what changes they can make to influence productivity. Dr. Jaspan received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and her B.S. in Software Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

  
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  Collin Green

  Collin is the User Experience Research lead and manager of the Engineering Productivity Research team within Developer Intelligence. The Engineering Productivity Research team brings a data-driven approach to business decisions around engineering productivity. They use a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to triangulate on measuring productivity. Collin received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California-Los Angeles.