When leaders disagree with their developers
What should you do when leaders and developers see productivity differently? Start here.
Abi Noda
CEO
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Operationalizing developer productivity metrics
How to integrate metrics into teams’ decision-making processes.
Laura Tacho
CTO
DX and Thoughtworks partner to drive engineering excellence
DX and Thoughtworks partner to bring clarity, strategy, and real change to developer experience.
Kyle Jaggi
Director of Partnerships
Backstage is dominating the developer portal market
Analysis of the IDP landscape.
Abi Noda
CEO
Attending an academic research conference
Learn about ICSE, the premier software engineering research conference.
Abi Noda
CEO
Announcing our partnership with Coder
See how DX and Coder are partnering to make remote development faster and more secure.
Kyle Jaggi
Director of Partnerships
Thinking beyond quarterly developer surveys
The most useful feedback we can get from developers happens when and where the work is getting done.
Laura Tacho
CTO
Accelerating engineering velocity at Block
Block's vision and roadmap for driving engineering velocity.
Abi Noda
CEO
Google’s principles for measuring developer productivity
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” How Google makes sure their models for measuring productivity are useful and not problematic.
Abi Noda
CEO
Performance reviews don't improve performance. So why do we do them?
Leaders of high performing teams already know that performance management should be something that's done every day, not something that's batched up and done quarterly.
Laura Tacho
CTO
Rolling out developer productivity metrics
A guide to change management and comms.
Abi Noda
CEO
Google’s framework for defining and measuring software quality
Google defines software quality as including four types: process quality, code quality, system quality, and product quality.
Abi Noda
CEO
The two design flaws that make your metrics easy to game
If you worry about people gaming the system, remember: it's a problem with the system, not with the people
Laura Tacho
CTO
How Brex uses DX to set their platform roadmap
See how Brex built a DevEx roadmap that scales with their engineering team and actually delivers.
Erinn Schaal
Customer Success
Measuring developer productivity: A clear-eyed view with Kent Beck
Kent Beck grilled me on Goodhart’s Law, benchmarks, and the purpose of measurement.
Abi Noda
CEO
Explaining platform investments with clarity: Using the Core 4 metrics
How to quantify the impact of developer productivity initiatives using the Core 4.
Laura Tacho
CTO
How DX bridges the road to full system metrics
Connect engineering activities to system health with metrics that make sense to everyone.
Greyson Junggren
Co-founder, CRO
Applying the Core 4 framework
How to collect and calculate the Core 4 metrics.
Laura Tacho
CTO
Getting exec buy-in for developer productivity initiatives
Three ways to frame developer productivity initiatives.
Abi Noda
CEO
A platform team's guide to DX
This guide shows platform teams how to use DX data to drive better, faster decisions.
Brook Perry
Marketing