# Developer productivity

`kaal:entity:developer-productivity`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `developer-productivity`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2024.

**2021**

- [3995709-001](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-001) [empirical/evidenced] -- Modern code review imposes substantial hidden costs because developers spend an average of six hours per week reviewing others' changes and are forced to switch away from their own work, creating an opportunity cost on project development.
  > Developers spend a significant amount of time reviewing the changes of others – an average of 6 hours per week.11 Not only is this a significant amount of time, it also requires an opportunity cost on project development as developers are forced to switch away from their current work.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

**2024**

- [4734750-001](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-001) [empirical/evidenced] -- Modern code review is expensive not only in direct reviewer time but in opportunity cost, because developers spend an average of six hours per week reviewing other people's changes and must switch away from their own work to do so.
  > Developers spend a significant amount of time reviewing the changes of others
  Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

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