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Four Metrics Every Engineering Manager Needs to Monitor for Success

DevOps.com

Engineering managers and leaders are charged with a challenging task every day: How do they support engineers to do their best work, and how do they know if their engineers are doing their best work? To enable an engineer’s best work, you’ll want to make sure they are […].

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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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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

. “However, measuring efficiency has historically been very challenging for a multitude of reasons, namely tooling complexity, lack of access to data and use of dubious proxy metrics that bred micromanagement and distrust.” ” Sleuth isn’t the only platform that uses DORA metrics to quantify productivity.

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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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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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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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