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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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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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Your dev team lead is not controlling enough

Dzone - DevOps

Three phases of a controlling engineering manager. Every morning, I see the unfiltered thoughts of 1200+ engineering leaders as one of the community moderators in the Dev Interrupted Discord server.

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Forecasting 2023 Recruiting Trends With 6 Experts

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

2 What is your pro tip for HR professionals/engineering managers who are currently dealing with the hiring freeze and anticipating a huge deluge of vacancies next year? Rado: Engineering managers should be able to do “more-with-less” in the coming year. Hold people accountable to metrics, not KPIs.

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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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Habits of Highly Effective Engineering Managers

Federico Cargnelutti

Metrics Customer behaviour is the key metric for business success. Metrics you can measure to improve performance in your Agile development process: Lead time. Become a mentor and invest in the life and career of your team members. Look for data points that you can use to make the development process more effective.

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LinearB wants to help development teams optimize their workflows

TechCrunch

One of LinearB’s most important promises is that it goes beyond simply giving engineering managers access to more dashboards about developer efficiency. It tracks metrics like cycle time, deployment frequency, mean time to restore when things go off the rails and change failure rates.