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Are you writing enough code, keeping up with the latest technology, or driving product progress? Developer productivity is a top priority for developers, engineering leaders, and businesses.
But attempts to measure developer productivity can be risky, damaging, and downright misleading. From the infamous lines of code to brutal code reviews, every developer has a horror story of a time their authentic effort and problem-solving was mismeasured, or worse, even punished.
In this talk, I want to propose a different, science-backed approach to productivity using research evidence from a study with 1200+ developers: developer thriving.
I’ll tackle why “thriving” remains a challenge, exploring three myths about productivity that I believe hold our industry back, and thinking through better and more scientific ways of understanding productivity for engineering organizations, leaders, and developers.
You will leave this talk with:
- Knowledge of how good problem-solving environments lead directly to higher-quality work, productivity, and collaboration
- Tips on how to encourage developer thriving with cycles of motivation, learning culture, developer agency, and a sense of belonging
- More scientific ways to understand and implement productivity
