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Tag: DevEx

  • Improving developer experience

    Improving developer experience
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    This paper on Psychological Affordances and their influence on DevEx improvement interventions from Catherine M. Hicks is a goldmine for understanding how to make a lasting difference to development teams.

    Find out what a “psychological affordance” is, how definitions of developer experience differ, and how to create the right conditions for success.

    For that code cleanup up tool to actually get used effectively, it’s not enough to just provide the tool. Leadership needs to actively signal that this work is valued, is visible, is important.

  • Developer productivity at Google

    Google Developer Productivity: Code Quality and Beyond
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    A peek inside Google’s research on developer productivity, which looks at causal relationships to find what helps developers get stuff done (and what gets in the way).

    Looks at factors like shifting priorities, documentation, time spent in meetings, distributed and remote working, and technical debt.

    “Maybe it’s not just the presence or absence of documentation that matters, but the quality and purpose of that documentation.”