Does your team suffer from duplicate git Issues? How about competing or over-stuffed pull requests? A group of researchers have discovered all sorts of ways your dev team may be working with less-than-optimal efficiency.

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Researchers have analyzed GitHub pull requests and issues to uncover patterns in development workflows. By studying 56 GitHub projects, they identified patterns like competing PRs and duplicate issues that can impact productivity. They also developed a tool, WorkflowsExplorer, to visualize these patterns. The findings suggest that optimizing communication and code review practices can enhance project efficiency.

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