Dr. Tom Zimmermann visits our course on empirical software engineering and discusses his many years of research on developer productivity with us.    

We discuss what makes for a productive day from a developer's perspective, how time spent programming relates to perceived developer productivity, how individual and team productivity may have to be balanced, the role work environment and team culture plays on productivity and what we can learn (and can't learn) from "fitbit" type data and surveys. Tom also shares some secrets of his research success and this started with his master's thesis.  

This Q&A was recorded live as part of a workshop on Developer Productivity,  at a Senior Topics Course in Empirical Software Engineering at the University of Victoria on Nov 20th, 2020.

This Q&A is also available on YouTube.