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Measuring developer productivity via humans

How Shopify uses a survey to measure developer productivity

How DoorDash reduced cognitive load with a developer portal

How American Express improved their developer experience

How Splunk revamped their developer onboarding program

Introducing Data Studio AI Assistant

How to implement DORA metrics

How Toast enables teams to drive their own productivity improvements

How Pipedrive enhances developer productivity with a data-driven DevEx strategy

How Workhuman scales with platform engineering and AI

When to form a Developer Productivity team

How Google measures developer productivity

How One Medical boosts developer productivity by reducing their ‘paper cuts’

How Pfizer scaled to 1,000+ engineers

AI Summarization in DX

4 ways Intercom is improving developer productivity

PRs won’t tell you whether GenAI is boosting developer productivity. This will.

Job board: Find openings in DevEx/Platform roles

How Shopify’s infrastructure team defined their charter

Introducing DX Frontline

Announcing the general availability of PlatformX

Correlate qualitative and quantitative metrics

Announcing our integration with Atlassian’s Compass

SPACE framework: a quick primer

Inside look: Shopify’s developer experience survey

Importance-performance matrix analysis

How DORA and SPACE are related

Welcoming Laura Tacho, DX’s new CTO

The truth about Git metrics tools

DX25 core model: first look

Inside Peloton’s developer experience survey

How developer experience became a strategic pillar at American Express

DX included in the Thoughtworks Technology Radar

DORA metrics don't measure productivity

Inside Extend’s journey of rolling out a Git and Jira metrics tool

Advocating for DevEx initiatives: GitHub, Notion and more

How LinkedIn analyzes developer survey data

How Etsy justified their DevEx investment

10 key questions for your developer experience roadmap

Introducing DX Atlas

The continual evolution of DORA

Pitfalls of tracking developer activity metrics

How LinkedIn measures developer productivity

Combining qualitative and quantitative metrics

Lessons learned from introducing a Git metrics tool

Inside Etsy’s multi-year DevEx initiative

Five flawed productivity metrics

Etsy’s former CTO: how to advocate for DevEx initiatives

Growing your influence as a developer acceleration team

Measuring DevEx initiatives

The case for investing 50% of R&D spend in platform engineering work

A better way to measure developer productivity

Translating DevEx into dollars

How DevProd teams can use surveys to inform their roadmaps

Prejudice against surveys

SPACE is not a silver bullet

Choosing what to measure in your developer experience survey

Defining the scope for a developer experience team

Three-bucket framework for engineering metrics

The case against cycle time

Survey participation rates

DX25: science-based approach to measure developer experience

Dr. Nicole Forsgren joins DX

How to champion investments to improve documentation

Setting realistic deadlines at Divvy

How Canonical systematically improves developer documentation

Motivating developers to care about documentation

Introducing DX: the developer intelligence platform

Revamping engineering documentation: Farewill's process

Practices for effective cross-team collaboration in engineering

Quick tips for setting and hitting deadlines from drone deploy