Developer Satisfaction Survey/2021/Importance vs satisfaction

   📖 Developer Satisfaction 2021 The developer satisfaction survey is an annual survey of the Wikimedia developer community. The survey asks questions about Wikimedia developer tooling, practices, and documentation.

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🤼 Importance vs Satisfaction
Below is a chart of the satisfaction of the software development community across each survey category:

Gaps
We can use satisfaction and importance to find our gaps.

The lower the score on the chart below—the bigger the difference between importance and satisfaction—the more resources we should spend to improve it.

Phabricator has a high satisfaction (relatively), BUT it has an even higher importance, which is why there's a gap.

Beta has a low satisfaction, BUT low importance, which is why there's no (significant) gap.



The method used to make this chart is called Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA). It's a management method meant to make it easy to determine resource allocation across categories. It compares the means of likert categories of importance and satisfaction to make a determination about where an organization should spend its resources.