Combining qualitative and quantitative metrics
Balancing qualitative and quantitative metrics for effective developer productivity assessment and improvement. Survey first, then drill down with data.
Abi Noda
CEO
Research & Insights
Lessons learned from introducing a Git metrics tool
A VPE's story from rolling out a Git metrics tools.
Taylor Bruneaux
Analyst
Five flawed productivity metrics
Five common metrics that are misused for measuring developer productivity.
Abi Noda
CEO
Inside Etsy’s multi-year DevEx initiative
Etsy invested 20% of their engineering capacity on a multi-year DevEx initiative. Read about their decision to make this major investment and the specific problems they focused on.
Brook Perry
Marketing
Etsy’s former CTO: how to advocate for DevEx initiatives
Etsy invested 20% of their engineering capacity on a multi-year DevEx initiative. Read about how their former CTO justified this investment.
Taylor Bruneaux
Analyst
Growing your influence as a developer acceleration team
The strategies Wayfair's Developer Acceleration team used to find incremental wins and continue growing their scope.
Taylor Bruneaux
Analyst
Measuring DevEx initiatives
The right approach for measuring the impact of DevEx initiatives.
Abi Noda
CEO
The case for investing 50% of R&D spend in platform engineering work
An interview with Shopify's former CTO on why he believes companies should make significant investments in platform engineering work.
Taylor Bruneaux
Analyst
Translating DevEx into dollars
On using correlations over back-of-the-napkin calculations for the impact of DevEx improvements.
Abi Noda
CEO
How DevProd teams can use surveys to inform their roadmaps
How Developer Productivity and Platform teams can start collecting developer feedback.
Brook Perry
Marketing
Prejudice against surveys
Discussing common objections about developer surveys.
Abi Noda
CEO
SPACE is not a silver bullet
Don't "just use the SPACE metrics."
Abi Noda
CEO
Choosing what to measure in your developer experience survey
Five considerations for your developer productivity surveys.
Erinn Schaal
Customer Success
Defining the scope for a developer experience team
How to define a strategy for a Developer Productivity or Platform team, and how these teams typically form and evolve.
Brook Perry
Marketing
Three-bucket framework for engineering metrics
Abi Noda
CEO
The case against cycle time
What cycle time is and isn't useful for.
Abi Noda
CEO
Common causes of suboptimal participation rates
Reasons why your developer survey is getting low participation.
Abi Noda
CEO
How to champion investments to improve documentation
A guest post on how to improve internal developer documentation.
Aaron Suggs
Engineering Manager, Instructure
Setting realistic deadlines at Divvy
A guest post on how to encourage engineering and product teams to set clear and realistic deadlines.
Bruce Weller
VP of Engineering, Divvy
How Canonical systematically improves developer documentation
A guest post on how Canonical takes a structured approach to improving and building out their internal developer documentation.
Daniele Procida
Director of Engineering, Canonical