Tag: metrics
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AI ends up like spreadsheets – Software Defined Talk #124 with Bryan Ross
I’m old enough to remember how much time and agony we spent explaining to managers the importance of context switching for developers, and how they should have meeting free Fridays… And now the same people that we’re trying to help are bragging about how distracted they are. Bryan Ross, SDI #124. Check out this week’s…
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How to make better enterprise AI ROI metrics and dashboards
Encode what you should next in AI ROI metrics, don’t leave the decision up to post-metrics vibes. Make the decision before making the metrics. Translate the decision into language that people use before packaging it up into quantifiable metrics. For example, ‘Should we scale this AI feature from 10% to 100%?’ or ‘Should we fund…
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Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores – workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools
Tokens are the new lines of code. Also, yes, of course, “Goodhart’s Law,” blah blah. 🔗 Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores – workers complain of intense pressure to use AI tools
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Organizations are measuring DevEx metrics more, JetBrains survey
JetBrain’s The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity survey is out. It’s an oddly, narrowly focused survey. Mostly on metrics used to measure developer experience. Above, the metrics most used for tracking/rating/metric’ing development..As the conclusion says, measuring DevEx is getting better: The good news is that companies are getting more serious about tracking developer…
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The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence – A good take on metrics and frameworks to show the “business value” or tech projects.
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Measuring Productivity: All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful – ”Measure Speed, Ease, and Quality Different facets of productivity warrant the use of different metrics. We typically think of productivity as a balance among speed, ease, and quality.”
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Employee Mode
You are a company of one: Click here to watch the video. If you liked that, there’s more of my take on “employee mode” in the ten part video series I did for O’Reilly: “How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships.” How about that…
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The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed: Avoiding the Anti-Patterns of AI | RAND – As ever, communicating the requirements and the problem to be solved to IT is difficult and often results in solving the wrong problem, at least in the right way: “In failed projects, either…
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How To Measure Platform Engineering – Suggested metrics: “Market share. Onboarding time. Net Promoter Score (NPS). Key customer metrics.”
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Developer productivity metrics, 1970s sausage fonts, only the “grown and sexy” are welcome
Once again, I am bringing you only links and funny pieces of text. Relative to your interests Measuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 – “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs.…
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Measuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 – “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs. Come up with metrics and needs from the (economic/strategic) stakeholder who has the power to make changes.…
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The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys
When I look at recent platform engineering surveys, the results are positive: people see the value in platforms and platform groups. I’d say this is because platforms are helping speed up the app release cycle by automating a lot of the infrastructure work app developers would otherwise need to do, baking in/automating security and compliance,…
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This apple has a butt
Never use slide notes Relative to your interests Organize Your Change Initiative Around Purpose and Benefits – ‘An easy method of finding a change project’s purpose is to continuously ask, “Why are we doing the project?” Usually, you need to ask this question three to four times to get to the core purpose.’ // Does…
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Good metrics are good, bad metrics are bad, and people in zombie movies have obviously never seen a zombie movie
What every kid wants, the Windows XP wallpaper. What’s your favorite “observed statistical regularity”? The “problem” with Goodhart’s Law is that we now know it exists. By “problem,” I mean using Goodhart’s Law when it comes to critiquing organizational metrics. If you know Goodhart’s Law (rather, the rewording of it as we’ll see below), when…
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The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand
No links today, but this: Measuring Developer Productivity Once you suggest tracking an individual software developer’s performance, you get into big trouble with the thought leaders. This is, you know, pretty much a correct a response. McKinsey decided to have a go recently, giving us all a chance to think about “developer productivity” again. In…
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Gartner’s Enterprise Value Equation for Business Value of Platform Engineering – Metrics and attributes to use to measure platform effectiveness.
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How Agile Value Management Creates Value Faster – Some metrics for measuring progress.
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First Attempt at Gathering DORA Metrics – Not easy.
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Shifting to new metrics for platform engineering
Suggested theme song for this episode: download share download share Embed this tracksmallmediumlarge Email: – – – Sorry, this track or album is not available. Sorry, this player does not support your browser. Your browser must either support native HTML audio or have the Flash plugin installed. Changing Infrastructure People’s Metrics…
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