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I know lots of people are trying to measure developer experience right now to gauge the performance of their engineering organisations. Premanand Chandrasekaran and I had the good fortune to interview Abi Noda, co-founder of DX. Abi has tremendous experience and great insights into this topic. I really enjoyed our conversation and I hope you will too. https://lnkd.in/ge_yAEeY

Underdog Fantasy didn't want to measure developer productivity by focusing solely on things like how many code reviews are people doing or their churn rate. They wanted to take a more holistic approach. Today, Aaron Nunley and Underdog's engineering organization uses DX to measure overall productivity and identify points of friction getting in developers' way. Read their story: https://lnkd.in/ghy_KbEN

Going to IT Revolution's summit next week? Be sure to join this workshop on measuring and improving developer productivity:

We'll be at ELC Annual in San Francisco later this month. Come swing by our booth if you'll be there, and be sure to catch Abi's talk. 👇

It’s been inspiring to work with GfK as they’ve doubled down on being a data-driven engineering organization. They’re a great example of a company that has successfully adopted data at all levels of the organization, driving meaningful outcomes. With DX, GfK has become an industry leader in several key engineering capabilities like Testing and Local Development. Kudos to Stacey Hudson, Moses M., and the rest of the team. We’re lucky to get to work with leaders like you. (The only thing missing from this video is Jared Mooring!)

“Over the course of the last year it’s been impressive how DX has become part of daily conversation.” John Lewis Partnership's main strategy for using DX is to provide teams with data, enabling them to independently address issues affecting engineering productivity. Today, 87% of teams have adopted the tool to drive their own improvements. Learn more about how JLP is using DX:

🎥 https://lnkd.in/eqZTkjBy I’m excited to share that I’m part of our latest DX customer success story video (a mum, am on TV moment 😆)!  Our engineering leaders and I discussed how DX (getDX.com) has influenced how we manage and empower our teams at GfK - An NIQ Company. The DX engineering survey tool has made a real difference in two critical engineering aspects that I am passionate about: - Empowering Engineers: DX has helped our engineers pinpoint issues and boost productivity. - Data-Backed Leadership: DX continues to give me clear insights into team health so I can tackle challenges with solid data. Thanks, DX (Erinn Schaal | Brook Perry | Greyson Junggren), for helping us transform our metrics, enhance our understanding of the #DeveloperExperience, and support a bottom-up approach rooted in #ServantLeadership principles. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eqZTkjBy

When I first met with the John Lewis team two years ago, they were looking for a way to understand developer experience and how to improve as an engineering organization. Now, DX is used by every engineer, team, and leader; and Michelle Fitzgerald, Rob Hornby, and Howard Newell have spearheaded incredible improvements to issues like build times, requirements quality, deep work, and the engineering onboarding process. Really proud to see everything their team has accomplished to date. We love supporting this group.

💡 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮-𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗛𝗟 When I joined DHL eCommerce Nederland just over two years ago, I became part of an organization that experienced significant growth in its digital capabilities during the COVID years, expanding from 20 to 86 engineers. As a newcomer, I talked to as many people as possible to understand the organization better. Through these conversations, people shared numerous stories and concerns that were not only technical but also organizational, process-related, and cultural. Determined to address these challenges, I began exploring potential solutions. Although engaging with everyone regularly would be both social and enjoyable, it wasn’t feasible and could introduce bias. Having read "Accelerate" and noting the rise of SaaS platforms facilitating DORA metrics tracking, I considered this approach. However, DORA focuses on DevOps performance and doesn’t systematically capture the other aspects of engineering team performance. It provides outcomes like deployment frequency, but the underlying causes need further exploration. The SPACE framework, introduced later, addressed this gap. It offers a comprehensive assessment of team productivity across five dimensions, including satisfaction, wellbeing, communication, and collaboration, in addition to what DORA covers. By chance, I saw a LinkedIn post by Gergely Orosz about DX, which immediately caught my attention. After researching and speaking with Greyson Junggren, I was convinced. Co-created by part of the same research team behind DORA and SPACE, and not requiring any technical integrations, DX was perfect for a trial. We conducted our first survey in July 2022, just two months after I started at DHL. With an initial response rate of 92% (out of 86 engineers), the results were remarkable. They reflected the concerns I had heard and what the leadership team observed, all in a structured and insightful manner. Since then, we’ve been using DX and running quarterly surveys across our growing engineering team, which now numbers around 140 engineers, achieving a 99% response rate in recent quarters. While having all this data is valuable, real change happens when you act on the results. What we've been doing with the results is a different story on its own, which I'll come to in a different post. For now, I can wholeheartedly say that DX has been the most valuable investment we've made in driving engineering and cultural excellence at DHL eCommerce BNL. #dora #space #developerexperience #dx #engineering #culture

We partnered with Atlassian to produce a State of Developer Experience report, which just came out today. Here’s what’s inside: Data on... - How much time developers are losing due to inefficiencies - The top causes of time loss in engineering teams - Whether organizations are investing enough in DevEx - The importance of DevEx, according to leaders - Developers' perceptions on the impact AI tools are having - And more. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gXAF-GuY