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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon. Here they are.

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How to capture qualitative metrics

Martin Fowler

Abi Noda and Tim Cochran complete their article on qualitative metrics by outlining how to capture them effectively. They discuss the mental steps that people go through as they respond to a survey and provide a template to get started when assessing developer experience.

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The Benefits of Qualitative Metrics

Martin Fowler

Abi Noda and Tim Cochran continue their discussion on using qualitative metrics to assess the productivity of development teams. In this installment they classify qualitative metrics into attitudinal and behavioral metrics.

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Track the right metrics to improve your developers’ work experience

TechCrunch

Alex Circei Contributor Share on Twitter Alex Circei is the CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a development analytics tool that measures engineering teams' performance. To counter this productivity-sapping trend, companies need to be thinking more about developer experience (DX).

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are less understood.

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Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans

Martin Fowler

Measuring developer productivity is a difficult challenge. Conventional metrics focused on development cycle time and throughput are limited, and there aren't obvious answers for where else to turn.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower CTO

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution?

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems.

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF. If the needs of your target audience aren't clearly defined, PMF, which combines qualitative and quantitative metrics, has numerous chances of failing. What metrics you should track to measure product-market fit.

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Prioritizing Customer Experience Using SLIs & SLOs: A Case Study from The Telegraph

There was a time when technology managers needed to actively monitor these kinds of granular metrics, but today, these alerts just create distracting noise. The premise of SLIs/SLOs is that all teams—product, architecture, development, and platform— need to look at services from the customer’s perspective.

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A PM’s Guide to Forging an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Kim Antelo, Transformation Coach

She will also discuss: The overlap between HEART and Pirate AAARRR metrics. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.

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9 Developer Enablement Practices to Achieve DevOps at Enterprise Scale

In this eBook, Christian Oestreich, a senior software engineering leader with experience at multiple Fortune 500 companies, shares how a metrics-driven mindset can dramatically improve software quality and enable DevOps at enterprise scale.

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User-Centered Development: The Importance of User Empathy to Build the Right Thing

Speaker: Jesse Walker, Product Manager at Canva

After all, at the other end of the product development workflow is a real person relying on the products we're building to make their lives easier. It allows us to see our work in terms of the real problems it helps solve, rather than simply the metrics it helps move.

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

A value-driven product organization optimizes team structures, funding cycles, processes, and metrics to drive traction and growth across the entire product adoption curve by identifying opportunities to solve valuable customer problems and closing those market gaps for either over-served or under-served markets. A System of Metrics.