RESEARCH_FILE
Ciera Jaspan
Known for:Research on developer productivity measurement at scale, including studies on how team and organizational context shapes individual output at Google
SEE THE PRACTICE
Turn a thought this research explains into one clear move.
THE THOUGHT
“Meetings are killing my productivity”
YOUR RECORDED RESPONSE
“A meeting and a shipped feature aren't competing for the same scoreboard.”
ONE PRIVATE MOVE
Tonight, look at tomorrow's calendar and write next to each meeting one thing it's actually deciding or unblocking.
Key findings
- 2019
With Murphy-Hill and colleagues, Jaspan's research at Google found that individual performance was more strongly shaped by team-level factors — code review culture, on-call load, meeting density, psychological safety — than by individual effort, suggesting that peer velocity comparisons conflate personal capability with structural environment. What Predicts Software Developers' Productivity? ↗