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Feeling lost on what your engineering teams are actually working on? So does the leadership team at the (fictional but all-too-real) GSS Healthcare. Find out how the GSS team — and your team — can see time allocation across new value creation, tech debt, and defect work, even in the midst of digital transformation and lots of messy data. The deep dive starts here: https://lnkd.in/geT5VvNx

So many of the engineering organizations we meet with struggle with developer time allocation... because they also struggle with the steps that come *before* that allocation can happen. / Jira is a mess / Mismatched systems / Manual processes / Competing priorities These factors make seeing how everything fits together all but impossible. At Uplevel, our time allocation models can help with that. Our team took a page out of The Unicorn Project (a must-read for anyone in engineering in a large organization) to illustrate how Uplevel might sort out the mess for a fictional company needing the visibility to align investments to business objectives. How many of these struggles resonate in your organization? Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/grRwM7JG #developerproductivity #engineering #CTO

Are your devs burning out from busywork? Developer toil refers to the manual, repetitive work that keeps services running - the tasks that provide little value but consume significant time. Left unchecked, toil can lead to burnout and disengagement across your engineering teams. Read more about the nuances of developer toil and how to reduce it: https://lnkd.in/gaAB6PvN #devex #developerproductivity

“This is not a university lab.” 👏 TL;DR: Better outcomes come from business AND tech stakeholders focusing first on solving real customer problems. Grainger’s Jason Yip gets real in Uplevel’s latest episode of Engineering Leadership Blueprints about how leaders can drive alignment in their organizations. #CTO #engineering #valuedelivery

Lean engineering in tough times requires hard tradeoffs. With limited resources, how do you deliver value while managing expectations? Our new blog post shares insights from tech execs Michelle Salvado, MA-ODL, MBA, ACC, Michael Stahnke, and Vilas Veeraraghavan on how to optimize effectiveness for lean engineering teams. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gPVxb9jW

There is a limit to what surveys can tell you about the developer experience. With better research and better tools, we can provide holistic, quantitative information that captures developer experience, analyzes engineering culture, and allows teams to use surveys less frequently and more impactfully. Here's how: https://lnkd.in/ghWFapsc #devex #developerexperience #developerproductivity

What's the one thing engineering leaders should focus on to maximize developer productivity in a tough economic climate? As we enter a period of cost-cutting across the tech industry, many companies are asking engineers to do more with less. But trying to spread engineers too thin is a surefire way to kill productivity. Instead, leaders need to ruthlessly prioritize the most important work and protect their engineers' ability to achieve flow state - long stretches of focused, uninterrupted coding time. The best engineering teams excel by doing the simple fundamentals well: prioritizing a few key projects, normalizing deep work time, using tools consistently across teams, and having clear processes for communication and project management. It's the role of leadership to provide this structure and clarity. When resources are abundant, any company can brute force productivity through hiring. But it's only in tough times that the great engineering cultures separate themselves from the rest. #CTO #developerproductivity #engineeringleadership

Research science says it typically takes over 23 minutes to recover from an interruption to deep work. Slack is incredibly powerful but can be a silent killer of productivity if not managed effectively. Leaders need to help their teams balance healthy collaboration with blocks of focus time. You can’t manage what you can’t see. Are engineers spending their focus time responding to pings? Are they getting pulled into long conversations? Are they at burnout risk because they can’t tune out and focus on delivering? With Uplevel, you’ll not only know — you’ll know exactly where to start improving. #developerproductivity #engineeringleadership #cto

🤔 97% of companies report accelerating digital transformation, yet only 1 in 3 succeed. Why is that? The key lies in identifying and measuring the right priorities tied to business outcomes. Simply tracking technical metrics misses the bigger picture of how engineering impacts the bottom line. The right engineering data can provide visibility into: ✅ Aligning technical priorities to key business drivers like faster time-to-market ✅ Adopting modern development practices that enable agility and scale ✅ Allocating developer time effectively towards high-value work By connecting engineering metrics to strategic goals, leaders can benchmark progress, adjust resources, and communicate wins to get buy-in. The businesses that succeed at digital transformation are those that measure what matters. Does your org have the right lens into developer productivity?

The feeling your engineers get when they sit down for a deep work block and that Slack ping comes in... Want to quantify the impact of interruptions on developer productivity? Ask about Uplevel's advanced Chat Interruptions model, which provides a unique (and uniquely accurate) picture of how your team is actually spending their time. #developerproductivity #deepwork #engineeringleadership