Archive - Engineering Enablement

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

December 2024

The best of engineering enablement in 2024

The top newsletter issues and podcast episodes from this year.

Dec 23, 2024 •

2024 benchmarks for the DX Core 4

A summary of findings from this year's DX Core 4 benchmarks. This year we saw smaller companies delivering faster, tech companies spending more time…

Dec 17, 2024 •

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Introducing the DX Core 4

A new unified framework for measuring developer productivity that encompasses DORA, SPACE, and DevEx.

Dec 10, 2024 •

Measuring PR throughput—perspectives from SPACE author Brian Houck

PR throughput is a controversial metric. Brian provides advice on where it’s useful and how to leverage it.

Dec 3, 2024 •

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