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About this paper
Danilo Ribeiro, Breno Alves, Gabriel Souza, César França, Alberto Souza
The Adaptive Developer Efficiency Monitoring Method (ADEMM) provides an adaptive, longitudinal approach to track developer efficiency in contexts where the monitoring organization lacks direct control over developers' work environments. It effectively integrates quantitative and qualitative data to evolve its monitoring instrument, enabling continuous identification of efficiency factors and actionable insights for consulting practices.
Key insights
- Effective monitoring in contexts without direct control over professionals should prioritize factors where the monitoring organization has a realistic capacity to intervene, ensuring actionability.
- Longitudinal monitoring of dynamic phenomena requires a combination of quantitative closed items for tracking frequency and qualitative channels (open questions, interviews) for capturing context and emerging factors in each iteration.
- Instrument evolution should be guided by a consensus-based process to remove items with low variance and usefulness while systematically adding new items based on recurring patterns identified from qualitative analysis.
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