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2 months ago | 
newsletter.getdx.com | Abi Noda
Welcome to the latest issue of Engineering Enablement, a weekly newsletter sharing research and perspectives on developer productivity. This week I read SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?, a new paper from OpenAI that evaluates how well frontier AI models perform on real-world software development tasks.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
newsletter.getdx.com | Abi Noda
Welcome to the latest issue of Engineering Enablement, a weekly newsletter exploring the data behind world-class engineering organizations. If you want insights like this delivered to your inbox, subscribe here:This week I read Identifying Factors Contributing to “Bad Days” for Software Developers: A Mixed-Methods Study, a new paper from Microsoft that dives into what disrupts developers’ workdays.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
substack.com | Abi Noda
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May 9, 2024 | 
newsletter.getdx.com | Abi Noda
This is the latest issue of my newsletter. Each week I share research and perspectives on developer productivity. This week I read AI-assisted Code Authoring at Scale, a recent paper from researchers at Meta. Meta developed and deployed “CodeCompose,” an AI-assisted code authoring tool used internally at the company. In this paper, the authors describe how they’ve refined, deployed, and measured the impact of this tool. They also share challenges they’ve experienced along the way.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Nicole Forsgren |Eirini Kalliamvakou |Abi Noda |Michaela Greiler
Somewhere, right now, a software developer is pulling open a ticket from the project backlog, excited by the prospect of working on something new. As the developer begins reading through the description of the task, their laptop is suddenly flooded with alerts from the team’s production error-tracking system, disrupting the developer’s ability to focus. Eventually, returning to the task at hand, the developer studies the requirements described in the ticket.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
martinfowler.com | Abi Noda |Tim Cochran
Somewhere, right now, a technology executive tells their directors: “we need a way to measure the productivity of our engineering teams.” A working group assembles to explore potential solutions, and weeks later, proposes implementing the metrics: lead time, deployment frequency, and number of pull requests created per engineer. Soon after, senior engineering leaders meet to review their newly created dashboards. Immediately, questions and doubts are raised.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
microsoft.com | Nicole Forsgren |Eirini Kalliamvakou |Abi Noda |Michaela Greiler
DevEx (developer experience) is garnering increased attention at many software organizations as leaders seek to optimize software delivery amid the backdrop of fiscal tightening and transformational technologies such as AI. Intuitively, there is acceptance among technical leaders that good developer experience enables more effective software delivery and developer happiness.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
newsletter.getdx.com | Abi Noda
This is the first issue of a new series bringing you insights and trends on developer productivity. This article provides benchmarks on how much companies spend on centralized developer productivity and enablement efforts. Improving developer productivity requires a two-pronged approach. Cross-cutting issues such as development infrastructure are well-tackled by centralized teams. Meanwhile, local team issues such as code quality and collaboration are best solved via local team members and leaders.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
cacm.acm.org | Abi Noda |Margaret-Anne Storey |Nicole Forsgren |Michaela Greiler
View as:PrintMobile AppACM Digital LibraryIn the Digital EditionShare: Engineering leaders have long sought to improve the productivity of their developers, but knowing how to measure or even define developer productivity has remained elusive.5 Past approaches, such as measuring the output of developers or the time it takes them to complete tasks, have failed to account for the complex and diverse activities that developers perform.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz |Kent Beck |Abi Noda
This is the second, and final part of the response of the two of us — and — to the McKinsey article “Yes, you can measure software developer productivity.”We believe that introducing a kind of framework that McKinsey is proposing is wrong-headed and certain to backfire. Such a framework will most likely do far more harm than good to organizations – and to the engineering culture at companies and the damage could take years to undo.
