Tag: metrics
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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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First, Belgian mayonnaise, and then: PHENOMENA, TRENDS AND BUSINESS MODELS SHAPING DIGITAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES
It’s one of my daughter’s birthday this weekend, she’s 9. The days go by! 7 Interviews At VMware Explore last week, Alex Williams and I did seven interviews. They were actually a presentation and then an interview. Check them out! Promo! First, I’m hosting a panel talk this week, online, with three people – we’ll…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #55
Original content DevOps Metrics for Technical, Business and Culture Transformation This is the talk I gave at VMworld this year. It goes over three types of metrics to use in all your digital transformation, get better with software stuff. While I don’t list very actionable (yeah! check out that work use!) metrics for culture, I…
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Notes on the 2019 DevOps Report
Some quick notes and callouts from this year’s 2019 DevOps Report: Four key metrics: lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to restore (MTTR) and change fail percentage. Med, High, and Elite all have a change fail rate of 0-15%. So, expect 15% change fail as benchmark worst case to shoot for…? Demographics: 30% are devs,…
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Link: Adobe Summit 2019 analysis – CX hype is countered by Chegg’s digital turnaround story
Chegg isn’t digital-only today. They still ship five million textbooks a year – but their mission has changed. And, as Narayan pointed out, they now need new metrics. Rosensweig said those metrics include subscriber growth, revenue growth, engagement, renewal, and conversion rates. But there’s an underlying metric: create something awesome. … What we learned was…
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