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How (in)efficient are engineering organizations?

This analysis draws from 30,000 developer responses across 180 organizations to reveal critical insights about engineering efficiency benchmarks and what differentiates high-performing teams from the rest.

How (in)efficient are engineering organizations?

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Executive summary

This report from DX analyzed tens of thousands of developer responses across nearly 200 companies to understand how much waste engineering organizations experience.

Our analysis reveals that engineering organizations are losing over one-fifth of developer time to workplace inefficiencies, substantially draining engineering productivity and investment. Additionally, in exploring whether company size affects efficiency, we find a correlation between organization size and inefficiency regarding employee count and annual revenue.

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DX Analytics Team

DX’s Analytics team is focused on providing data-driven analyses that will inform senior engineering leaders and platform teams across various aspects of developer productivity and best-in-class engineering performance.

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