Archive - Engineering Enablement

March 2025

Operationalizing developer productivity metrics

How to integrate metrics into teams’ decision-making processes.

Mar 26 •

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Backstage is dominating the developer portal market

Analysis of the IDP landscape

Mar 19 •

Attending an academic research conference

Learn about ICSE, the premier software engineering research conference.

Mar 12 •

Accelerating engineering velocity at Block

How Block’s DevEx team developed their roadmap and the key investments they’re making.

Mar 5 •

February 2025

Google’s principles for measuring developer productivity

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” How Google makes sure their models for measuring productivity are both useful and not problematic.

Feb 26 •

Rolling out developer productivity metrics

A guide to change management and comms.

Feb 19 •

Software Quality

Google’s definition of software quality includes four types: process quality, code quality, system quality, and product quality.

Feb 12 •

Measuring developer productivity: A clear-eyed view

Kent Beck grilled me on Goodhart’s law, benchmarks, and the purpose of measurement.

Feb 5 •

January 2025

Applying the Core 4 framework (Part 2)

How to quantify the impact of developer productivity initiatives using the Core 4.

Jan 29 •

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