Engineering Enablement
Engineering Enablement Podcast
CTO buy-in, measuring sentiment, and customer focus
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CTO buy-in, measuring sentiment, and customer focus

Snowflake’s Head of Developer Productivity and Director of Engineering share how they made developer productivity a top priority with strong support from their CTO.

In this episode, Snowflake’s Gilad Turbahn, Head of Developer Productivity, and Amy Yuan, Director of Engineering, dive into how they elevated developer productivity to a top company priority. We discuss the pivotal role of Snowflake’s CTO, who personally invested over half his time to guide the initiative, and how leadership's hands-on involvement secured buy-in across teams. The conversation also explores the importance of collaboration between engineering and product management, and how measuring user sentiment helped them deliver meaningful, long-lasting improvements.

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Discussion points:

  • (0:48) The need for a shift at Snowflake

  • (3:59) Leadership involvement and prioritization of developer productivity

  • (8:56) The partnership between engineering and product managers

  • (20:01) From feature factory to customer outcome-focused development

  • (27:36) Shifting measurement focus to user sentiment and customer outcomes

  • (39:13) Gaining buy-in for sentiment metrics and tying them to business impact

  • (51:11) How Snowflake’s CTO and volunteers accelerated developer productivity improvements.

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Engineering Enablement
Engineering Enablement Podcast
A weekly podcast on measuring and improving developer productivity.