Documentation is critical to your business
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…
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
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
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…
Metrics that matter pt. 3
The developer productivity metrics you should measure. This next metric is an important one. Developer sentiment Now... This isn't some touchy-feely nonsense metric. Developer sentiment is far more than that.…
Metrics that matter pt. 2
The developer productivity metrics you should measure. The next metric for this series is: developer focus time. Focus time is a premium commodity for devs. Developers are constantly bombarded with…
Metrics that matter pt. 1
The developer productivity metrics you should measure. This is a short series of some important developer productivity metrics. These will give you important insights into how your engineering team us…
Simple yet effective
What if your engineers knew exactly where to find information? What if they could go to a centralized place when they have a question or need to review documentation? Let's…
Balancing new features with stability
For high growth SaaS companies, the pressure to release new features is immense. But. You still need to maintain stability and can't risk a costly outage. You need a way…
Finding standardization zen
We can't standardize because it will squash innovation! Have you heard this before? I have... A lot. On the flip side, having no standards in place is chaos. So where…