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FlowSight Research: Developer Experience & Task Context

Hi, We're researching how developers manage context between tasks and progress updates.
This is NOT a product survey. We want to understand your real pain points. Takes ~10 minutes. Your feedback is anonymous and extremely valuable.

What is your current role?

How many years of development experience do you have?

How many years of development experience do you have?
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Does your team work...?

Does your team work...?
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Describe the LAST TIME you lost flow/momentum while coding. What happened exactly? What caused it?

How long did it take you to regain flow after?

How long did it take you to regain flow after?
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How often does this happen to you in a typical week?

How often does this happen to you in a typical week?
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Tell me the LAST TIME your PM asked you to update a task's status. What exactly did you do? Did you leave your code to do it?

How many minutes would you estimate that complete interruption took?

Where do you normally update your progress?

Where do you normally update your progress?

Have you used any time tracking or monitoring tool in the past? Ex: Hubstaff, Time Doctor, clockify...

Have you used any time tracking or monitoring tool in the past? Ex: Hubstaff, Time Doctor, clockify...
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In the positive case, which one did you use?

In the positive case, which one did you use?

What tool was it? What specifically bothered you or made you uncomfortable?Why?

What things would you NOT want a tool to track about your activity? (Select all that apply)

What things would you NOT want a tool to track about your activity? (Select all that apply)

What would a tool have to GUARANTEE for you to trust it? Be specific.

What do you do TODAY to keep PMs from having to constantly ask where you are on each task?

Does that work well for you?

Does that work well for you?
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Tell me about the LAST development tool you successfully integrated into your workflow. What convinced you? How long did adoption take?

If there was a tool that automatically updated your progress WITHOUT interrupting you, but processed everything locally (no data sent to the cloud), would you try it?

If there was a tool that automatically updated your progress WITHOUT interrupting you, but processed everything locally (no data sent to the cloud), would you try it?
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What would you need to SEE or VERIFY before starting to use it?

Would you be willing to use a LOCAL beta version (100% private, no cloud) for 2 weeks to give feedback?

Would you be willing to use a LOCAL beta version (100% private, no cloud) for 2 weeks to give feedback?
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What's your email so we can contact you?

Anything else to add:

Thanks for your time

Your feedback is incredibly valuable for building something that actually solves YOUR problems.

If you know other developers with these pain points, please share this form.