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What is diff authoring time? The developer metric taking Meta by storm
Why has Meta fallen in love with it?
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Gut-based engineering leadership is failing
Why instinct isn’t enough for stakeholders who need clear, actionable answers.
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Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader
Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.
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How to measure the impact of engineering in 2025
As we look to 2025, here’s four trends to look out for when it comes to measuring developer productivity.
Are DORA metrics right for your team?
DORA metrics can be a useful tool for tracking and improving performance. If you want the DORA 101 – look no further.

London • June 16 & 17, 2025
Speakers Gergely Orosz, Camille Fournier
and Lara Hogan confirmed
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The Engineering Team Performance Report 2024
How do organizations measure their engineering team performance? We asked 900+ engineering leaders.
On our Reporting playlist

Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader
Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.

The metrics you loved to hate in 2024
And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.

What are qualitative productivity metrics – and how do we measure them?
If your team is hitting key delivery metrics, we assume everything in the lifecycle before production is sound. However, we know that traditional metrics only tell half the story.

Delivery metrics – the good, the bad and the utterly ridiculous
As an engineering team lead, I spent countless hours pouring over data points, spreadsheets, and graphs in search of the perfect set of metrics to measure our team’s success.

Reporting effectively to the board
Accurately represent the impact of your org to senior stakeholders.


The festival of engineering leadership
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
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Buyer’s checklist for software developer analytics solutions
With so many developer metrics tools on the market, how do you pick the right one for your organization? Simplify the vendor selection process with our foolproof, step-by-step checklist.
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What the top 10% of dev teams look like in 2023
These key engineering metrics help separate the truly elite software development teams from the rest.
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Keep your delivery in balance with these metrics pairings
Engineering metrics can be misleading when they are viewed in isolation, but by pairing certain key metrics together, engineering leaders can unlock the full picture of their software development pipeline.
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Why elite dev teams focus on pull-request metrics
Pull request size massively impacts cycle time and development workflow – small PRs and low rework rates boost efficiency, stability, and lower overall risk.
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Solving the mean time to repair problem
Just how bad is the mean time to repair (MTTR) problem? And how can engineers circumvent common issues to reach their MTTR goals?
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How business alignment works in high-performing engineering teams
Business alignment is a crucial factor of organizational success and planning accuracy is the way to achieve it.
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The relationship between observability, OpenTelemetry, and UX
The missing piece to improving your user experience might just be adopting an observability strategy.
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Observability for engineering managers
Observability goes beyond logs, metrics, and traces, and it’s up to you as a manager of engineers to set out the vision and policies to make that possible.
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Less is more: Tool consolidation for more performance of your testing
Yi Min Yang explores how in the wake of the ongoing global economic situation, organizations across the globe have been grappling with the impact on their software development and expenditure.
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Don’t let metrics be a distraction
Setting and tracking metrics can be a tempting solution for many situations. In this talk, Jean Hsu covers a few common scenarios and how to integrate metrics with other approaches to get your desired results.
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Operational data meet organization silos
This talk will cover some of the tools Observe has to help understand operational issues faster, and reduce friction working on incidents across teams.
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The only two metrics you should show to your CEO
In this session, Dan Lines will give you the two metrics that matter most when answering the two most important questions.
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Developer productivity 2.0
In this session Gergely walks through a survey on how various engineering teams work, and what approaches they have found productive. He covers what developer productivity means, and approaches and tools that you can experiment with.
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The role of data in green software engineering
In this talk, Simon will go into detail about the planning of infrastructure and systems in both backend and frontend to reduce the environmental impact.
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Leading software teams with context (visibility)
In this talk, James will ground discussion on obtaining and measuring data that matters to give you visibility into your teams.
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The only two metrics you should show to your CEO
Which two metrics that matter most when answering the questions of is the project on time and how can we speed it up?