how great teams get shit done

src: [VDBUH2023] - Sven Peters - Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done - 2023-04-24

Abstract

Improving developer experience to improve developer productivity.

Developer joy:

• dev quality: code / project quality
  • 42% of dev time used for technical debt
  • 10% of dev teams manage technical debt
  • coding guidelines
  • code reviews
  • flaky test detector
  • start with DORA
    • Change failure rate
    • Time to Restore
  • quality metrics
    • bug resolutions
    • change failure rate
    • time to restore
    • on time vulnerability resolutions
    • incident recurrence
• dev progress: be able to push forward without roadblock
  • 3 days average from opening to merge a pull request
    • can add a bot to remind people: reduce to 1.2 days
  • instead of Quality Assurance, use Quality Assistant to help developer for manual and automated tests
  • feature test strategy
  • test automation platform
  • deployment frequency
  • lead time for change
  • internal and customer improvements
  • organization development
  • innovation time
  • reducing entropy
  • service operations
  • administrative time
• dev value
  • get the whole picture
  • demos
    • open: everyone can join
    • outcome: show customer value
    • group thinking: challenge the solution
    • celebrate: recognize great work
  • software development is not a production line
  • measure what is important, don’t make important what you can measure