Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called
My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools,
which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time:
Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn
Instrumenting metrics required tweaks across too any different tools
Generally I found tools forced an arbitrary, questionable model onto the problem
Two and a half years later, I made an angel investment in DX,
which at the time I largely viewed as taking a survey-driven, research-backed approach to developer productivity.
I was recently chatting with Abi Noda, co-founder at DX,
and thought it would be an interesting time to revise my original thesis
both generally and in response to DX’s release of
DX Core 4.
