Tag: metrics

  • Organizations are measuring DevEx metrics more, JetBrains survey

    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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  • Employee Mode

    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

    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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  • The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys

    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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  • Good metrics are good, bad metrics are bad, and people in zombie movies have obviously never seen a zombie movie

    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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  • Gartner’s Enterprise Value Equation for Business Value of Platform Engineering – Metrics and attributes to use to measure platform effectiveness.

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  • A birthday cake in Harry Potter style.

    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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