Max Kanat-Alexander, the Tech Lead for the Developer Productivity and Insights Team at LinkedIn, shares an inside look at LinkedIn’s metrics platform and how teams across the organization use it.
Discussion points:
(1:31) Why Max shares how his team is measuring productivity
(3:20) Why some teams use metrics and some don’t
(6:03) The types of metrics Max’s team focuses on
(12:59) The role of TPMs
(17:05) How Max would measure productivity if he weren’t at LinkedIn
(25:04) Surprises in how teams are using metrics at LinkedIn
(31:27) The tooling required to enable metrics for teams to use
(36:41) Qualitative versus quantitative metrics
(40:39) Measuring code quality at Google
(46:16) Whether a centralized team should own measurement
Mentions and links:
Connect with Max on LinkedIn or Twitter
Read the article, Measuring Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn
Listen to the first interview with Max and his colleague Or Michael Berlowitz: Episode 23
Abi’s blog post on the Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics
How teams use productivity metrics at LinkedIn | Max Kanat-Alexander (LinkedIn, Google)