James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? My favorite discussion of the topic is Robert Austins, who wrote Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. Not possible. Lets dig in.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

As we’ve put it into practice, it’s definitely been a lot of work for managers to fill out the spreadsheets. For managers that know their employees well, the work’s been tolerable. For managers that are new to their team, it’s been tough. The management track is the biggest addition, with 78 new skills. (PDF)

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

Traditional engagement metrics such as satisfaction, happiness, well-being let alone cannot explain behaviours, actions and motivation of a high-performance team. Given the similar type of environments, two teams with the same level of engagement may have different levels of performance - one can be high-performing another average performing.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Bear in mind that fixing bugs without running tests could also introduce new bugs into the system. Well-written unit tests act as documentation for your code. Any developer can quickly look at your tests and know the purpose of your functions. Unit testing is an integral part of extreme programming. Conclusion.

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LaunchDarkly

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Kristen Gallagher, Founder of Edify, a data-driven, human-focused learning design firm, spoke at the October Test in Production Meetup in Seattle, co-hosted by LaunchDarkly and the Seattle DevOps Meetup. She shared about nightmares in employee onboarding for software engineers and strategies for avoiding them. FULL TRANSCRIPT.

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