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CIO metrics are failing digital transformation; it’s time to radically rethink success

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However, the metrics used to evaluate CIOs are hindering progress. While the CIO role has expanded significantly, the metrics used to evaluate their performance often remain tied to traditional IT values like cost management, operational efficiency, and system uptime. The CIO is no longer the chief of “keeping the lights on.”

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The Most Important Developer Productivity Metric

Honeycomb

But a barrier that often holds teams back from completing the feedback loop is how long it takes to actually get feedback on code under development, or push code into production. Ideally, build times under six to seven minutes mean developers stick around to watch their builds and are ready to rapidly correct CI failures. Ever faster!

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Beyond Metrics – Why Human Capital is Key in Founding and Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

The Human Element in Due Diligence Due diligence in the venture capital ecosystem is no longer solely focused on financial metrics or product-market fit. Financial metrics alone rarely reveal the qualities that drive lasting success, such as resilience, adaptability, and a unified vision.

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Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans

Martin Fowler

Measuring developer productivity is a difficult challenge. Conventional metrics focused on development cycle time and throughput are limited, and there aren't obvious answers for where else to turn.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are less understood.

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How Block is accelerating engineering velocity through developer experience

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We want engineering velocity to remain our competitive advantage, says Azra Coburn, Blocks Head of Developer Experience. With this aim, Block has established a global developer experience function focused on empowering developers to innovate rapidly and deliver high-quality products.

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

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For example, developers using GitHub Copilots code-generating capabilities have experienced a 26% increase in completed tasks , according to a report combining the results from studies by Microsoft, Accenture, and a large manufacturing company. These reinvention-ready organizations have 2.5 times higher revenue growth and 2.4

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems.

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF. If the needs of your target audience aren't clearly defined, PMF, which combines qualitative and quantitative metrics, has numerous chances of failing. What metrics you should track to measure product-market fit.

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Prioritizing Customer Experience Using SLIs & SLOs: A Case Study from The Telegraph

There was a time when technology managers needed to actively monitor these kinds of granular metrics, but today, these alerts just create distracting noise. The premise of SLIs/SLOs is that all teams—product, architecture, development, and platform— need to look at services from the customer’s perspective.

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A PM’s Guide to Forging an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Kim Antelo, Transformation Coach

She will also discuss: The overlap between HEART and Pirate AAARRR metrics. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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9 Developer Enablement Practices to Achieve DevOps at Enterprise Scale

In this eBook, Christian Oestreich, a senior software engineering leader with experience at multiple Fortune 500 companies, shares how a metrics-driven mindset can dramatically improve software quality and enable DevOps at enterprise scale.

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User-Centered Development: The Importance of User Empathy to Build the Right Thing

Speaker: Jesse Walker, Product Manager at Canva

After all, at the other end of the product development workflow is a real person relying on the products we're building to make their lives easier. It allows us to see our work in terms of the real problems it helps solve, rather than simply the metrics it helps move.

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

A value-driven product organization optimizes team structures, funding cycles, processes, and metrics to drive traction and growth across the entire product adoption curve by identifying opportunities to solve valuable customer problems and closing those market gaps for either over-served or under-served markets. A System of Metrics.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. The result was enabling developers to rapidly release and iterate software while maintaining industry-leading standards on security, reliability, and performance. How Amazon thinks about metrics.