NEW POST It's difficult to measure developer productivity, and conventional metrics are often lacking. Abi Noda and Tim Cochran begin a post explaining the role qualitative metrics can play. martinfowler.com/articles/me…

Here is my conversation with @nicolefv—Author of Accelerate, and world-renowned expert on developer productivity. We discuss: ➔ Two frameworks for measuring developer productivity: DORA and SPACE ➔ Benchmarks for what good and great look like ➔ Common mistakes to avoid when measuring developer productivity ➔ Signs your developer experience needs attention ➔ How to improve your developer experience ➔ Her favorite resources and tools ➔ The four-box framework for thinking about data and relationships

When the folks who created DORA and SPACE publish an interesting new framework: I pay attention. It was great to interview @margaretstorey, @nicolefv, @mgreiler & @abinoda and to ask Nicole the question that's on the mind of many folks using/considering DORA. Read it here:

TL;DR: Excited to join getdx.com as a strategic advisor. Improved developer experience with rigor and practicality is AWESOME. You can read more at getdx.com/news/nicole-forsgr… (My kingdom for edits.)

Friday's issue of @abinoda's (new) newsletter reviews a chapter by @casaout and his colleagues. This chapter shared research that looked to understand developer productivity from a "bottom-up" perspective (e.g., from the developer's perspective). abinoda.substack.com/p/devel…

We’ve been working on an interview series called “Fieldnotes” at @DeveloperXM — the series aims to surface different practices for improving an engineering team’s effectiveness, efficiency, and engagement. Really enjoyed this interview with Aaron on investing in internal docs:

Pretty big moment over here @nuffsaid_hq. We launched a magazine! More inspiration, frameworks, and interviews to come. But for now, I’m so proud of the team for making this happen. 👏

I've created a B2B SaaS Marketing Guide that features a collection of some of my favorite resources on the Internet. My plan to update this guide regularly and would love your help in improving the resources that are shared. kracov.co/writing/b2b-saas-m…

We just launched Success Happy Hour, a weekly newsletter for #customersuccess leaders. Each week it features one digestible piece of content to help leaders build, scale, and evolve their Customer Success organizations. Sign up & read past editions here: hubs.ly/H0tfDHx0

I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections:

wrote about Utah a little this morning techcrunch.com/2020/04/13/ch… continuing our peeks at various startup markets

"People need two different categories of mentors: One that's 3 to 5 years ahead of you who’s doing the job that you want to have next and a mentor who's much older and has already achieved the level of success you’re after." — @ChrisHicken on @firstround hubs.ly/H0mVbPm0

Thinking about managing? Wondering what the difference is between growing as an individual contributor versus a manager? I did an interview with @GitPrime about just this: blog.gitprime.com/individual…

I've started to really enjoy weekly newsletters on engineering & tech leadership. I've tried out a lot of them and here is a list of the ones I really like. blog.pragmaticengineer.com/m… Shoutout to curators @orenellenbogen @GitPrime @patkua @jakubgarfield @SurajKapoor @theghazstation

One job, many roles. The different skills needed to be a successful CTO madewithlove.be/one-job-many… cc: @GitPrime

20 Patterns to Watch for in Engineering: A field guide to debug your development process with data producthunt.com/posts/20-pat… via @traviskimmel

Announcing @GitPrime CEO Travis Kimmel to speak at Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2019. More speakers can be found here: bit.ly/2UdqsYr #SSTS19

Another 2018 WINNER doing great things! GitPrime is on a building and hiring spree, putting to work $10.5 million in venture capital raised earlier this year. Read more here: buff.ly/2UMIAIM

I've had the best journey building out our engineering management practice at Buffer, from self-management to the support structure we have now. Read about my learnings and the research why great managers really matter⬇ buff.ly/2QuVWqN