Reporting

Finding the right metrics and reporting them effectively

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Performance season made easy with this proven strategy

Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
- Leif Dreizler

Enhance product development with data-driven decisions

Data isn’t the be-all and end-all, but there are some important things you have to get right to get the most out of it.
- Rahul Chandel
Content sponsored by Swarmia

Introducing engineering metrics to your organization

Picking the right software developer metrics isn’t as easy as it sounds.
- Rebecca Murphey

Content sponsored by Logz.io

An engineer’s guide to making sense of log data

Cloud native technologies have made it harder to understand how systems are behaving. Logs are the answer, but how do you make sense of them?

Editor’s picks

What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity

The consulting giant kicked a hornet’s nest when it launched a framework to measure software developer productivity. Here’s what engineers think they got wrong.

How to measure and improve success in your engineering team

A deep dive to help you and your team achieve what really matters.

Eric Rabinovich

November 5, 2025

A unique one-day event for Heads, Directors, VPs and CTOs exploring core leadership challenges.

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Essential reading

Content sponsored by Swarmia

The LeadDev Engineering Team Performance Report 2023

In 2023, LeadDev teamed up with Swarmia to survey more than 600 engineering managers to find out how organizations measure their team performance, and uncover the biggest challenges they face in doing so.

Setting goals and using metrics that motivate

Rob Zuber

On our Reporting playlist

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.

Metrics to measure developer experience

Tim will be exploring micro-feedback loops, taking a look at low level friction, how it can quickly compound to affect motivation and productivity.

Reporting effectively to the board

Accurately represent the impact of your org to senior stakeholders.

Concise and effective feedback: Applying the learnings of DORA4 to communication

David LaMothe discusses a model much like the DORA4 model, except instead of focusing on metrics like time to merge and rate of recovery, focusing on personally developed metrics for feedback that ensures he is giving it early and often.

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