Announcing new lifecycle reporting to quantify engineering time waste
Every week, your developers lose hours to invisible bottlenecks—DX’s new lifecycle reporting shines a spotlight on where time is really being wasted.
Creating a great developer experience means eliminating all possible sources of friction and delay. Yet historically, organizations have struggled to gain clear visibility into addressable delays within the software development lifecycle.
Traditional metrics such as build times, pull request merge time, and issue cycle times provide valuable insights, but they only illuminate a limited set of developer workflows. Moreover, these metrics often fail to distinguish between non-blocking delays (where developers can context switch and continue working) and genuine friction points that consume productive time.
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of lifecycle reporting in DX. This powerful new feature helps organizations quickly pinpoint which parts of the software development lifecycle are causing the most significant friction and delays. By identifying these bottlenecks, teams can make targeted improvements where they’ll have the greatest impact, and have data-backed conversations with stakeholders.
For engineering leaders, lifecycle reporting transforms abstract productivity challenges into concrete business metrics. This means you can finally quantify the monetary impact of your investments and better align resources with opportunities that deliver the highest ROI.
How it works
DX measures over a dozen key inner loop and outer loop developer workflows using self-reported data. While traditional metrics rely on tool-specific telemetry, self-reported data allows us to capture insights across all workflows—even where traditional telemetry is unavailable or difficult to obtain.
Each developer workflow is processed through a research-based formula that converts friction points into SWE hours—specifically, the annualized hours lost per year. This approach makes the aggregated cost of each workflow easy to understand, compare, and visualize, allowing teams to make data-driven decisions about where to focus improvement efforts.
Get started today
As of today, all new and existing DX customers have access to lifecycle reporting. To begin collecting this valuable data, simply update your snapshot settings to use the latest workflow question set from DX.
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