Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda
Sep 28, 2022
Establishing a DevEx team in a high-growth company | Willie Yao (Notion, Airbnb)
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In this episode, Willie Yao, Head of Infrastructure at Notion and former Head of Developer Infrastructure at Airbnb, provides a unique perspective on how Developer Experience teams work in hypergrowth companies. He shares how Airbnb developed a customer-first mindset internally, what it took to get Airbnb’s leadership invested in that effort, and how he’s approaching DevEx at Notion today.
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A close look at Peloton’s developer experience survey | Thansha Sadacharam (Peloton)
Thansha Sadacharam, who leads Tech Learning and Insights at Peloton walks us through the journey of building the company’s developer experience survey. She shares what went into the survey’s design, rollout, and maintenance, as well as the different teams involved.
Discussion points:
* (1:19) Where the idea for running a developer survey originated
* (6:36) Advice for other leaders getting buy-in for these initiatives
* (11:27) The first steps in designing the survey
* (18:21) How the survey incorporated benchmarking
* (20:30) Measuring developer satisfaction
* (22:37) Refining the question items
* (25:50) How long the survey was
* (26:50) What was involved in trimming the questions
* (29:28) Writing survey questions
* (33:12) How much time was spent developing the survey
* (35:19) The communication plan for launching the survey
* (42:05) Driving participation rates
* (45:21) Sampling and how often surveys are being sent
* (49:21) How the information was presented
* (54:10) Feeling nervous about sending out surveys
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May 16, 2023
A better way to measure developer productivity | A special episode with Laura Tacho and Abi Noda
In this episode, Abi is interviewed by Laura Tacho about the new paper he co-authored with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey, and Dr. Michaela Greiler. Abi and Laura discuss the pitfalls of some of the common metrics organizations use, and how the new paper builds on prior frameworks such as DORA and SPACE to offer a new approach to measuring and improving developer productivity.
Discussion topics:
* (2:20) Laura’s background
* (3:59) Laura’s view on git metrics
* (11:05) What developer experience (DevEx) is
* (14:37) How the authors came together for this paper
* (18:55) How DORA and SPACE are different
* (22:38) Limitations of DORA metrics
* (24:43) Employing the DORA metrics at GitHub
* (27:47) What the SPACE framework is
* (30:44) Whether to use DORA or SPACE or both
* (33:54) Limitations of the SPACE framework
* (37:29) The need for a new approach
* (38:46) What the new DevEx paper solves
* (40:13) The three dimensions of developer experience
* (40:54) Flow state
* (43:10) Feedback loops
* (43:52) Cognitive load
* (44:51) Why developer sentiment matters
* (47:58) Using both perceptual and workflow measures
* (50:59) Examples of perceptual and workflow measures
* (54:05) How to collect metrics
* (59:47) How other companies are measuring and improving developer experience
* (01:02:56) Advice for earlier-stage or growing organizations
Resources for learning more about the DevEx framework:
Read the new paper on ACM Queue
Read Abi’s announcement about the new paper
Read how top companies measure developer productivity
Connect with Abi and Laura
Sign up for Laura’s course, Measuring Development Team Performance
Connect with Laura on LinkedIn or Twitter
Connect with Abi on LinkedIn or Twitter
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