Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-Setting

Software developers are generally interested in developing better habits to increase their workplace productivity and well-being, but have difficulties identifying concrete goals actionable strategies do so. In several areas of life, such as the physical activity health domain, self-reflection has been shown be successful at increasing people's awareness about a problematic behavior, motivating them define self-improvement goal, fostering goal-achievement. We therefore designed reflective goal-setting study learn more developers' improve or maintain good work. our study, 52 professional software self-reflected work on daily basis during two three weeks, which resulted rich set habit that pursue also found purposeful, continuous not only increases productive unproductive (84.5 percent), leads positive self-improvements developer well-being (79.6 percent). discuss how tools could support with trade-off between cost value long-term engagement.