Archive - Engineering Enablement

DX Annual 2027: San Francisco and London

Next year DX Annual is returning to San Francisco and heading to London for the first time. Here's what to expect and how to register your interest.

15 hrs ago • Justin Reock, Brian Houck, and Abi Noda

How Microsoft sees engineering bottlenecks changing with AI

Tim Bozarth, Microsoft CoreAI CVP, explains how AI is changing engineering productivity, why outcomes matter more than output, and what engineering…

Aug 7 • Brian Houck

39:24

What are code reviews even for?

AI didn't break code review. It just made the parts we'd been ignoring impossible to ignore.

Aug 5 • Brian Houck

July 2026

The unexpected things developer metrics can measure

We built metrics to evaluate developer tools. They turned out to explain everything from office design to Daylight Saving Time.

Jul 31 • Brian Houck

Measuring the impact of AI coding tools: Capacity, not horsepower

Separate what to measure from how, then measure across dimensions.

Jul 29 • Brian Houck

Research briefing with Brian Houck: Measuring AI agents and revisiting the Core 4

Justin Reock and Brian Houck explore how AI coding agents are reshaping engineering metrics and what leaders need to measure in the age of AI.

Jul 24 • Justin Reock

46:32

The State of AI Impact in Engineering: Q2 2026

Data from 500+ teams reveals that AI is delivering measurable velocity gains, but velocity alone isn't the story.

Jul 22 • Justin Reock

UKG’s system for driving effective AI use

How they created an internal dashboard that managers could use to coach and guide their teams’ AI use.

Jul 15 • Abi Noda

Adopting the product operating model at Priceline

How Priceline used developer experience metrics, organizational change, and a product operating model to improve engineering effectiveness and prepare…

Jul 10 • Justin Reock

42:09

Five studies changing how I think about AI in software engineering

AI compressed the upstream work. What does that mean for everything downstream?

Jul 10 • Brian Houck

From dashboards to decisions

What three real-world case studies taught us about productivity measurement that works.

Jul 8 • Brian Houck

June 2026

AI and engineering productivity: Debating the headlines

Leaders from Etsy, Twilio, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft debate how AI is changing engineering productivity, technical debt, developer roles, and the…

Jun 29 • Justin Reock

39:42

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