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Trisha Gee
@trisha_gee
trishagee.com
Developer Productivity
with IntelliJ IDEA
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● Lead Developer Advocate at Gradle
● Java Champion & JetBrains Community Contributor
● 20+ years development experience
● Author
Trisha Gee
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● Lead Developer Advocate at Gradle
● Java Champion & JetBrains Community Contributor
● 20+ years development experience
● Author
Trisha Gee
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Learning
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Right information
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Right information
Right time
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Right information
Right time
Right place
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But Was I Productive?
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“…saved you from typing ~17.1k characters”
“…saved you from ~6 bugs a day”
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What is productivity?
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for a developer?
What is productivity?
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Lines of code!
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Lines of code
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Git commits!
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Git commits
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Bugs fixed!
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Bugs fixed
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Measuring Productivity
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“It’s hard to over-emphasize how unusual it is that an
economic sector as large as knowledge work lacks
useful standard definitions of productivity.”
Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
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SPACE
Satisfaction & well-being
Performance
Activity
Communication & Collaboration
Efficiency & Flow
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3454124
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SPACE
Satisfaction & well-being
Performance
ACTIVITY
Communication & Collaboration
Efficiency & Flow
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“As the twentieth century progressed, this visible-
activity heuristic became the dominant way we
began thinking about productivity in knowledge work.”
Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
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The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
vanity metrics
/ˈvænəti ˈmɛtrɪks/
noun
Measurements that give "the rosiest picture possible" but do not accurately
reflect the key drivers of a business.
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SPACE
Satisfaction & well-being
PERFORMANCE
Activity
Communication & Collaboration
Efficiency & Flow
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Are you busy All The Time?
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“Research indicates that when organizations overload
employees, base their incentives primarily on the
amount… they work, and excessively monitor their
activities,
https://hbr
.org/2023/03/beware-a-culture-of-busyness
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“Research indicates that when organizations overload
employees, base their incentives primarily on the
amount… they work, and excessively monitor their
activities, productivity and efficiency actually drop.”
https://hbr
.org/2023/03/beware-a-culture-of-busyness
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SPACE
SATISFACTION & WELL-BEING
Performance
Activity
Communication & Collaboration
EFFICIENCY & FLOW
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Writing Code
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Always Green: This section covers features that keep your code
compiling. IntelliJ IDEA can keep your code compiling even while
making big changes.
Keyboard First: Here you’ll be learning keyboard shortcuts.
Using the keyboard is much faster than using the mouse, and it can
help you stay "in the
fl
ow" when muscle-memory takes over.
In The Flow: This section covers features that help to keep you
"in the zone", that state of
fl
ow which is really productive while
coding.
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Flow feels GOOD
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Flow is an innately positive experience; it is known to
"produce intense feelings of enjoyment”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Satisfaction
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SPACE
Satisfaction & well-being
Performance
Activity
Communication & Collaboration
Efficiency & FLOW
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“The keyboard is not the bottleneck.”
Dave Farley
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Understanding Code
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youtu.be/L_ycOPmaZTo
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Source: The 2019 Tidelift managed open source survey results https://bit.ly/3MOEpK3
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Debugging
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Context Switching
Is A Killer
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“Studies show that it can take 15–25 minutes to regain
deep focus after an interruption. Frequent switching
fragments time, leaving developers unable to
complete complex tasks efficiently.”
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“Studies show that it can take 15–25 minutes to regain
deep focus after an interruption. Frequent switching
fragments time, leaving developers unable to
complete complex tasks efficiently.”
ChatGPT
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Integrated Development
Environment
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“For example, developers switched tasks on average 13
times an hour and spent just about 6 minutes on a task
before switching to another one.”
Developers’ Diverging Perceptions of Productivity
André N.Meyer
, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Fritz, Thomas Zimmermann
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“For example, developers switched tasks on average 13
times an hour and spent just about 6 minutes on a task
before switching to another one.
The cost or “harm” of a context switch depends on
several factors: the duration of the switch, the reason
for the switch, and the focus on the current task that is
interrupted. ”
Developers’ Diverging Perceptions of Productivity
André N.Meyer
, Gail C. Murphy, Thomas Fritz, Thomas Zimmermann
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Let’s talk about AI
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Why are you asking me questions??
Are you another child of mine????
Leave me alone, I’m just trying to THINK!!!!!
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What the hell was I doing?
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…or increase your cognitive load?
Does it make things easier?
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Your Mileage May Vary
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“The productivity myth suggests that anything we
spend time on is up for automation…. The importance
and value of thinking about our work and why we
do it is waved away as a distraction.”
https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/
Eryk Salvaggio
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In Summary
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“Learning drains cognitive resources, but after you’ve
learned it, using the now-automatic knowledge and
skill is fast and effortless.
Badass: Making Users Awesome
Kathy Sierra
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“Learning drains cognitive resources, but after you’ve
learned it, using the now-automatic knowledge and
skill is fast and effortless. Knowledge in the head
trades slower learning time now for faster using
time later.”
Badass: Making Users Awesome
Kathy Sierra
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Your job is hard
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Your job is hard
Learn the bits of your tools
that will make it easier
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“The pleasure in thinking and doing things well is such
a deep-wired human pleasure… and it feels (to me)
diluted when it’s linked to productivity.”
Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
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