Reporting & metrics
Tools and best practices for measuring and reporting engineering
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Engineering reporting at different levels
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How to report up and build relationships with stakeholders in an engineering leadership role
6 questions to ask when buying a software developer metrics tool
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A buyer’s checklist for software developer analytics tools
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The best software development analytics tools 2024
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4 free engineering slides that win over boardrooms
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What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity
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Validating soft skills with hard data
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What the top 10% of dev teams look like in 2023
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Keep your delivery in balance with these metrics pairings
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Why elite dev teams focus on pull-request metrics
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What recent data tells us about developer productivity and team health
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Using cooperative gaming to drive positive engineering change
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The workflow metrics that make elite dev teams
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Want to accelerate incident response? Empower customer service teams.
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How to level up your reporting as an engineering director
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Leveling up your reporting as an engineering manager
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Five engineering KPIs to consider for your next board meeting
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Making goals a habit: A guide to reaching engineering goals
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Four best practices for leveraging data responsibly
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Four ways to empower your team through data
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Using SLOs to align business and engineering goals
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Balancing delivery speed with engineering health
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Getting your engineers engaged with OKRs
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Engineering metrics at every level: An engineering director’s guide
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How managers can use metrics to improve planning and run better standups
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How Netlify, Splice, Code Climate, and more use engineering metrics
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What engineering leaders should be measuring
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The importance of effective status reports
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How to run a great incident post-mortem
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The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team
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Using metrics to remove bottlenecks and support your team
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Creating efficient, accurate, software estimations
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Taking a fresh look at setting objectives and key results for your engineering team
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Partner Content: The Engineering Leader’s Guide to Goals and Reporting
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5 mistakes to avoid when choosing a software developer analytics tool
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How feature measurement promotes productivity and happiness
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Setting goals and using metrics that motivate
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Don’t let metrics be a distraction
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How business alignment works in high-performing engineering teams
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Using success metrics to foster autonomy in engineering teams
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Five things you need to know about setting the right goals for engineering teams
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Reporting to the board as an engineering leader: Secrets to success
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Why engineering teams should stop counting Agile story points
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Five mistakes to avoid when setting OKRs for your team
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Using metrics to communicate the state of your engineering org
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How to foster data-driven tech leadership
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The ‘flawed five’ engineering productivity metrics
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A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector
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How to develop engineering metrics with people, process, and tools in mind
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How synergy between product and engineering can solve the problem of software estimation
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