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SUMMARY:Disrupting Developer Productivity One Bot At A Time\, Margaret-Ann
 e (Peggy) Storey\, University of Victoria / Microsoft TSE - Margaret-Anne 
 Storey - University of Victoria / Microsoft TSE
DTSTART:20170302T153000Z
DTEND:20170302T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Conversational bots have become a popular addition to many mai
 nstream platforms with software engineers adopting them at an almost dizzy
 ing pace across different phases of the software development cycle. Bots r
 eportedly help such developers become more productive by automating tediou
 s tasks\, by bringing awareness of important project or community activiti
 es\, and by reducing interruptions. Developers “talk to” and “listen
  to” these bots in the same conversational channels they use to collabor
 ate with and monitor each other. However\, the actual impact these bots ha
 ve on developer productivity and project quality is still unclear. In this
  talk\, I will give an overview of how bots are playing a prominent role i
 n some software development settings and discuss the benefits and challeng
 es that can arise from relying on these "new virtual team members". I will
  also explore how bots may influence other knowledge work domains and prop
 ose a number of future directions for practitioners and researchers to con
 sider. 
LOCATION:Small Lecture Room \, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 21 Station Road\, 
 Cambridge\, CB1 2FB
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