DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
Abi Noda, Margaret‐Anne Storey, Nicole Forsgren, Michaela Greiler
Abstract
Developer experience focuses on the lived experience of developers and the points of friction they encounter in their everyday work. In addition to improving productivity, DevEx drives business performance through increased efficiency, product quality, and employee retention. This paper provides a practical framework for understanding DevEx, and presents a measurement framework that combines feedback from developers with data about the engineering systems they interact with. These two frameworks provide leaders with clear, actionable insights into what to measure and where to focus in order to improve developer productivity.
Topics & Concepts
ProductivityComputer scienceQuality (philosophy)Measure (data warehouse)Work (physics)Order (exchange)Product (mathematics)Focus (optics)Knowledge managementProcess managementBusinessEngineeringDatabaseMechanical engineeringGeometryEpistemologyEconomicsMacroeconomicsPhysicsOpticsFinancePhilosophyMathematicsDesign Education and PracticeTeam Dynamics and PerformanceBig Data and Business Intelligence