Andre, Author at South Software Solutions

Beyond Organizational Efforts

By Andre August 9, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

How should you view your engineering productivity efforts? Let's think about your eng-prod efforts on two levels. Organizationally and individually. Organizational changes for large sweeping improvements to developers at large…

Retrospectives are powerful when done right

By Andre August 8, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

Are your retros largely silent? Or, are they just huge complaint sessions? Has progress been blocked for multiple sprints? I've been part of completely unproductive retro sessions that wasted everybody's…

Fixing a broken development team

By Andre August 7, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

Repeatedly giving reports explaining that development is off-track is draining... and career-threatening. For the third week in a row, you have to report to everyone that development is behind and…

Setting up an engineering excellence team?

By Andre August 7, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

What specific actions are you taking toward improving developer productivity? Do you have a written plan? Are you setting up an enablement team with the hopes of eventually getting around…

Developer Productivity Launchpad Announcement

By Andre August 5, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

Announcing my FREE 5-day email course to help software engineering leaders improve developer productivity. In today’s fast-paced tech world, a productive and motivated development team is your greatest asset. This…

It works on my laptop

By Andre August 2, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

Using environment continuity to improve developer productivity. I'm sure we've all heard it before: "it works on my laptop but not when it's deployed!" This can be very frustrating for…

Documentation is critical to your business

By Andre August 1, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

Why you should centralize your documentation. Gary is a promising young developer who has just hired on at a new company. He gets his new laptop, a welcome packet, and…

As promised…

By Andre July 31, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

Here are a few questions to ask your devs to better understand their struggles. In an average week, how many times are you interrupted by unplanned work? How many releases…

More on qualitative metrics

By Andre July 30, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

Is measuring developer sentiment only for snowflakes? The developer walks into the room and lies down on a leather couch. A quiet man walks in and sits next to him.…

Too much of a good thing

By Andre July 29, 2024daily emailsNo Comments

Can it actually be dangerous to over-measure developer productivity metrics? Yes. In last week's short "Metrics that matter" series, I wrote about a few simple metrics that can shine a…