Evidence

Format Web Page

"Among the top 20% of Microsoft 365 users by ping volume, the average gap between work pings during an eight-hour workday was about two minutes"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Faux Async Frenzy

Source title Breaking down the infinite workday

Source authors Microsoft WorkLab

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"In Microsoft’s 2025 survey, 48% of employees and 52% of leaders said their work felt chaotic and fragmented"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Faux Async Frenzy

Source title Breaking down the infinite workday

Source authors Microsoft WorkLab

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"In Stack Overflow’s 2024 survey, 19% of professional developers were satisfied with their current role and 48% were complacent"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Faux Async Frenzy

Source title Professional Developers | 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Source authors Stack Overflow

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Passive visibility at work can cause observers to infer dependability or commitment"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Faux Async Frenzy

Source title How passive ‘face time’ affects perceptions of employees: Evidence of spontaneous trait inference

Source authors Kimberly D. Elsbach, Dan M. Cable, Jeffrey W. Sherman

Source year 2010

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Stack Overflow’s 2024 survey found that 20% of responding developers worked in person"

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Faux Async Frenzy

Source title Work | 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Source authors Stack Overflow

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Removing formal structure does not prevent informal structures from forming."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Hitting the Target

Source title THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS

Source authors Jo Freeman (Joreen)

Source year 1972

Confidence high

Importance low

Format Online paper / PDF

"The accuracy of historical-data Monte Carlo software forecasts improved when at least 20 historical data points were available."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Hitting the Target

Source title An analysis of Monte Carlo simulations for forecasting software projects

Source authors Pedro Miranda, João Pascoal Faria, Filipe Figueiredo Correia, Ahmed Fares, Ricardo Graça, João Mendes Moreira

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"In a 2021 study, historical-data Monte Carlo effort forecasts had MMRE of 20 percent across five runs versus 134 percent for available developer estimates."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Hitting the Target

Source title An analysis of Monte Carlo simulations for forecasting software projects

Source authors Pedro Miranda, João Pascoal Faria, Filipe Figueiredo Correia, Ahmed Fares, Ricardo Graça, João Mendes Moreira

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Peopleware reports 24 projects with no prepared estimate at average productivity of 12.0, the highest of the reported groups."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Hitting the Target

Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Peopleware reports 21 systems-analyst-estimated projects with average productivity of 9.5, higher than the programmer, supervisor, and joint-estimation groups."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Hitting the Target

Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high