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From Metric Overload to Focused Insights: A Software Engineering Manager's Journey

Allstacks

Over the course of time as an engineering leader, I've seen my fair share of trends come and go. But perhaps none has been as persistent – and at times, overwhelming – as the push for metrics. I remember a time when our dashboards were cluttered with every conceivable data point.

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Four Metrics Every Engineering Manager Needs to Monitor for Success

DevOps.com

Engineering managers and leaders are charged with a challenging task every day: How do they support engineers to do their best work, and how do they know if their engineers are doing their best work? To enable an engineer’s best work, you’ll want to make sure they are […].

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Article: How Skyscanner Embedded a Team Metrics Culture for Continuous Improvement

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale.

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Use these metrics to get the most out of your engineering team

CircleCI

I’ve been leading software teams for more than 20 years and one thing I’ve learned about metrics is that leaders tend to put too much emphasis on engineering metrics alone, without considering the bigger picture. Morale metrics. Business metrics. Velocity metrics. Change lead time. Sprint velocity.

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Skyscanner's Journey to a "Continuous Improvement" Team Culture

Speaker: Ramsay Ashby

Team metrics are in vogue, and there is no shortage of literature espousing the value of various combinations of metrics that will lead your team(s) to delivery stardom. They shared what originally took them down this path, including the signs that change was needed and the impact it has had.

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What Are DORA Metrics? (And Why Is Everyone Talking About Them?)

Dzone - DevOps

In order to improve DevOps practices, teams need to be able to measure them and are turning to DORA metrics as the gold standard. DORA metrics have become the golden standard for teams aspiring to optimize their performance and achieve the DevOps ideals of speed and stability.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

. “However, measuring efficiency has historically been very challenging for a multitude of reasons, namely tooling complexity, lack of access to data and use of dubious proxy metrics that bred micromanagement and distrust.” ” Sleuth isn’t the only platform that uses DORA metrics to quantify productivity.