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  What makes a great manager of software engineers?
Kalliamvakou E., Bird C., Zimmermann T., Begel A., DeLine R., German D. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 45(1): 87-106, 2019.  Type: Article

The non-physical nature of software is unique among products developed in the field of engineering; this fact places extreme importance on the qualities that the members of the software engineering team provide. The role of the manager...
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Jul 21 2020  
  The work life of developers: activities, switches and perceived productivity
Meyer A., Barton L., Murphy G., Zimmermann T., Fritz T. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 43(12): 1178-1193, 2017.  Type: Article

The work life of software developers has often been studied with a goal to understand ways to enhance productivity. The authors extend past efforts by gathering detailed work data from 20 experienced developers via a mix of unobtrusive...
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Oct 11 2018  
  Perspectives on data science for software engineering
Menzies T., Williams L., Zimmermann T., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2016. 408 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-128042-06-9)

Data science is a very hot topic. Case in point, we recently hired two specialist data scientists at my company. But data science is not something you pick up by running the latest data mining tool on your big data repository; rather, ...
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Apr 13 2017  
  Beliefs, practices, and personalities of software engineers: a survey in a large software company
Smith E., Bird C., Zimmermann T.  CHASE 2016 (Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, Austin, TX, May 14-22, 2016) 15-18, 2016.  Type: Proceedings

An exploratory survey of Microsoft employees had respondents complete a personality test as well as answer questions about various work practices and various beliefs about software development. Questions about work practices came from ...
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Aug 4 2016  
  Belief & evidence in empirical software engineering
Devanbu P., Zimmermann T., Bird C.  ICSE 2016 (Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, Austin, TX, May 14-22, 2016) 108-119, 2016.  Type: Proceedings

A survey of Microsoft software engineers had respondents answer a series of questions about software development. The number of respondents was 564, which represents a 22 percent response rate. There was most agreement for the proposit...
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Jul 28 2016  

 
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