We examined how developers spend their time to better understand what their working life consists of and how they wish it looked. We asked developers to first report how their week looked and then how they wished it looked.
We find that developers, on average, spend the largest proportion of their time on software development, followed by project management. They report spending on average 19 and 10 hours, respectively, on these tasks per week (31% and 16% of their total reported weekly time, respectively). We see that, in general, developers want to keep doing these two tasks as they are the two leading components of what developers wished their week consisted of as well.
Additionally, the more time developers spend developing software, the happier they are; emphasising a crucial, but occasionally-overlooked principle – developers want to develop software.
The largest difference we see between what developers wished their week looked like vs their actual week is in dealing with internal messaging and processes and infrastructure issues.
Developers wish that they could spend 19% and 17%, respectively, less of their time being held up by these time-sucks; highlighting the need for efficient and effective tools for communications and workflow across all aspects of business
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