Experience first, productivity second
How can you improve developer productivity without knowing their pain? A lot is expected from developers these days. Everything has a "...as code" suffix: Infrastructure as code, Configuration as code,…
Have cake AND eat it??
How can you enhance developer productivity while maintaining development velocity? The benefits sound great: faster feature delivery, higher retention, engineering efficiency, lower tech debt, and so on. But dedicating engineers…
Mo money mo problems
As your business expands, so do the challenges - if software engineering doesn't expand with it. Things might have gone great in the beginning. Customers are pouring in and the…
Three steps to getting funding for Developer Experience
If you're focusing on enabling engineers here is how to get executive buy-in. Starting a team dedicated to improving software development is a big task. It can be difficult to…
A good first step into developer experience
When a developer joins your organization, they are in a highly impressionable state. They are figuring out which tools to use, what their responsibilities are, and the technical details of…
How can CTOs possibly ignore this?
Faster development, fewer engineers, greater innovation. Am I being hyperbolic? ...No. This week, I've been talking a lot about the power of enabling your developers and engineers. That it yields…
Culture is king
Building on yesterday's email... Improving developer performance has the power to significantly improve your business. Not marginally...significantly You have a team of creative high performers; maybe even multiple teams. Think…
I have a question…
Do you care about developer performance? The answer is critical...and impactful. Developer performance has many facets: Developer Experience Developer Productivity Engineering Enablement Engineering Productivity Each of these are slightly different…
Transform Release Nightmares into Smooth Deploys
A not-so-long time ago in a galaxy that's actually pretty close, developers manually deploy code... Okay, it's our monthly release weekend, and it's time to deploy to production again. We…
The Power of the Workshop
Its amazing what can be achieved when you get people organized on the same goal. I ran a workshop today for a group if engineers. To say that it was…