Tech Lead Digest - What Actually Drives Productivity
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Tech Lead Digest
What Actually Drives Productivity
Engineering leaders have long sought to improve the productivity of their developers, but knowing how to measure or even define developer productivity has remained elusive. Past approaches, such as measuring the output of developers or the time it takes them to complete tasks, have failed to account for the complex and diverse activities that developers perform. Thus, the question remains: What should leaders measure and focus on to improve developer productivity?
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Planning Engineering Projects Effectively
Solving a customer problem with software is a complex activity. It goes from understanding the problem to identifying possible solutions to improve the situation and then delivering it: plan and execute the initiative to create the software.
Architecture Principles: An approach to effective decision making in software architecture
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Communication differences on diverse teams
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The Guardian Optimizes Mobile Push-Notification Delivery Architecture
The original architecture, optimized for concurrency, has been suffering from delays in notification delivery. The engineers used improved observability to make significant gains through experimentation.
What if, hear me out, what if the only work that matters in a knowledge economy happens when we are together? What if the reason we can’t seem to fix meetings is that we’re mischaracterizing “the work” in the first place?
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