This post appeared first in my Substack: flowlabs.substack.com. Sign-up there. You rolled out AI tools, added a dashboard, and still can’t answer whether any of it made your developers’ lives better or improved outcomes. The gap usually isn’t your tooling. It’s that the things easiest to measure aren’t the things that matter, and more numbers […]
Hybride Arbeit oder alle zurück ins Büro? [German article]
Abraxas, a leader in innovative and secure ICT solutions for Swiss government agencies, recently invited Dr. André Meyer to write an article on how organizations can leverage hybrid work as a market advantage and to better balance focus and teamwork, while at the same time ensuring data privacy and security, especially nowadays with the omnipresent […]
Book: Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering
I am proud to have been given the chance to author three chapters in our new productivity book, which is the result from a thought-provoking and discussion-intensive Dagstuhl Seminar in 2017. It was edited by Caitlin Sadowski and Thomas Zimmermann, and is available for free (OpenAccess). In the book, software engineering researchers review and discuss […]
Today was a Good Day: The Daily Life of Software Developers
I am excited to announce that another paper that I’ve worked on during my second internship at Microsoft Research was just accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Journal. Abstract: What is a good workday for a software developer? What is a typical workday? We seek to answer these two questions to learn how […]
Design Recommendations for Self-Monitoring in the Workplace: Studies in Software Development
I am excited to announce my first paper to the CSCW conference! Abstract: One way to improve the productivity of knowledge workers is to increase their self-awareness about productivity at work through self-monitoring. Yet, little is known about expectations of, the experience with, and the impact of self-monitoring in the workplace. To address this gap, […]





