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MOOD: Mindfulness fOr sOftware Developers

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Giuseppe Scanniello,

Alessandro Marchetto,

Paolo Giorgini,

Gloria Guidetti,

Daniela Converso,

Sara ViottiAuthors Info & Claims

ESEM '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Pages 598 - 602

https://doi.org/10.1145/3674805.3695392

Published: 24 October 2024 Publication History

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Peopleware, which includes anything related to the role of people in Software Development (SD), has been arousing an increasing interest from both the software industry and research community. This interest is due to the current economic system that demands high-quality software products with a short time to market, staying on the budget. This exposes software developers to the risk of experiencing stress, burnout, and reduced motivation, leading, in turn, to reduced job performance, low-quality SD-related artifacts, and increased turnover. Mindfulness represents a promising intervention that might let developers do their best at work, limiting or even preventing the previously mentioned negative outcomes. This paper presents MOOD (Mindfulness fOr sOftware Developers), a research project whose overarching goal is to customize a well-known and validated group-based intervention program, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), in the context of SD-related tasks and assess whether it helps developers to improve their well-being and performance, as well as the quality of the SD-related artifacts they produce.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78386-9_12

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ESEM '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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DOI:10.1145/3674805

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Romano SConforti AGuidetti GViotti SConverso DScanniello G(2024)On Job Demands and Resources in the Italian Software IndustryProduct-Focused Software Process Improvement10.1007/978-3-031-78386-9_12(172-188)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78386-9_12

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