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How to build a team that demands metrics

CircleCI

When we talk about metrics in software delivery, a lot of developers think of execution metrics — things like throughput, delivery and number of deploys. But in reality, those metrics don’t motivate anyone — at least not without connecting them to a bigger picture. Developers shouldn’t be obsessing over execution metrics.

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Top Green Software Speakers

Apiumhub

Arne Tarara – CEO/Lead Engineer at Green Coding Berlin GmbH Arne holds the position of CEO at Green Coding Berlin GmbH, a Berlin-based green software company. With 16 years of professional experience in software engineering, including roles as CTO and CEO, he has become a prominent speaker at Green Software events in Germany.

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Metrics-driven engineering leadership: How to elevate the visibility of your distributed team

Netlify

Some leaders have attempted to gather metrics around velocity, estimation and other measures, but in many ways these numbers have fallen short. At Netlify, we’ve found that choosing the right metrics and focusing on the team rather than the individual can motivate the entire team to consistently deliver great results. Throughput.

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Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Charity Majors CTO at Honeycomb.io. You have long-term feedback loops.

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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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What it’s like to be a backend engineer at Netlify

Netlify

But did you know that a big chunk of Netlify’s engineering team is in the backend? These fine folks architect the scalable build system workflows, edge routing, telemetry, metrics, account management, lambda functions, and so much more that everything depends on.

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CoRise’s approach to up-skilling involves fewer courses and more access

TechCrunch

CoRise defines experts as leaders at tech companies; advertised instructors include a data engineering manager at Drizly, former CTO at Wikimedia, director of machine learning at ShareChat, for example. Edtech’s search for the magic metric. Some classes, like this SQL crash course , are even taught by CoRise employees.

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