Nicole Forsgren

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.

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.

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.

May 11, 2023 | azure.microsoft.com | Nicole Forsgren

Early in my career, I worked as a developer and system administrator. I loved my teams and projects and noticed that many of the things engineers talked about when we were really getting work done (“being productive”) just didn’t make it to the weekly or monthly reports our management seemed to care about. For example, the reports only captured a few things, like the tests we had executed in burndown charts and the number of bugs closed.