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Driving AI tool adoption — Lessons from Microsoft
An interview with researcher and SPACE author Brian Houck about proven strategies for driving AI adoption.
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Can LLMs earn $1M from real freelance coding work?
A new benchmark tests AI’s ability to complete real-world tasks.
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5 interesting learnings from Revenue per Engineer data at 300+ companies
Top-performing companies see $1.5M+ Revenue per Engineer.
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The gap between developers’ ideal and actual workdays
How developers allocate their time and where AI can help.
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March 2025

Operationalizing developer productivity metrics
How to integrate metrics into teams’ decision-making processes.
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Backstage is dominating the developer portal market
Analysis of the IDP landscape
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Attending an academic research conference
Learn about ICSE, the premier software engineering research conference.
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Accelerating engineering velocity at Block
How Block’s DevEx team developed their roadmap and the key investments they’re making.
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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.
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Rolling out developer productivity metrics
A guide to change management and comms.
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Software Quality
Google’s definition of software quality includes four types: process quality, code quality, system quality, and product quality.
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Measuring developer productivity: A clear-eyed view
Kent Beck grilled me on Goodhart’s law, benchmarks, and the purpose of measurement.
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