Congrats to the team @OkayHQ (YC W20) on the acquisition by @stripe (YC S09)!
At Stripe, they’ll work to build tools that help boost the team’s engineering effectiveness: https://t.co/HvfjDVzZXZ
"What should I measure when the CEO asks for engineering metrics?" is probably the most frequently recurring eng leadership question, and connects into a larger, somewhat nebulous topic: how should you measure engineering organizations?
Some notes! https://t.co/alj4DSLbRb
We are getting ready to have @OkayHQ at #LeadDevSanFrancisco on Oct 25-27 as a Platinum sponsor. Take a look at what you can expect from a LeadDev experience. https://t.co/WkVRooThWk
🚀 We just released our plugin for #backstageio , the most popular developer portal platform!
You can now embed your Okay charts in your team/service pages, including DORA Metrics, Incident Dashboards, CI/CD Performance charts, and many more.
#devops#cicd
For a good programmer, not being able to ship code is exhausting.
"By mid-2021 I was tired all the time. I know I wasn’t alone, because it was an ongoing meme inside Google."
https://t.co/MDJU2hUvwN
@GergelyOrosz Developer productivity is an outcome of how well the organization functions. It measures manager performance, not developer performance.
The goal of management is to remove blockers such as bad tools or processes, and these problems are measurable
Fron a software engineer:
"Here's the real reason I started looking for a new job.
Build times.
I would spend 40-50 minutes waiting for XCode to complete a build, unable to do anything that time. Everyone told me it's just how it is. It was driving me crazy."
DevEx matters...
Managing Time & Interruptions is arguably the most important input to create high performing software teams. Read more at https://t.co/xTDQegYNCr
#engineeringleadership#engops#productivity
We raised $4.4M from @kleinerperkins to amplify our momentum and provide engineering effectiveness and visibility to every software company!
https://t.co/uRWAHqrKfg
Teaching people — directly and through cultural norms — that they are powerful, not powerless, to change and fix broken processes is key
https://t.co/7V3G5lr2Kz
Thoughts on developer productivity:
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
(Quote from inspirational speaker Alexander den Heijer)