Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

Max Kanat-Alexander, the Tech Lead for the Developer Productivity and Insights Team at LinkedIn, shares an inside look at LinkedIn’s metrics platform and how teams across the organization use it.

Discussion points: 
  • (1:31) Why Max shares how his team is measuring productivity
  • (3:20) Why some teams use metrics and some don’t 
  • (6:03) The types of metrics Max’s team focuses on
  • (12:59) The role of TPMs
  • (17:05) How Max would measure productivity if he weren’t at LinkedIn
  • (25:04) Surprises in how teams are using metrics at LinkedIn
  • (31:27) The tooling required to enable metrics for teams to use
  • (36:41) Qualitative versus quantitative metrics
  • (40:39) Measuring code quality at Google 
  • (46:16) Whether a centralized team should own measurement

Mentions and links:
Connect with Max on LinkedIn or Twitter
Read the article, Measuring Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn
Listen to the first interview with Max and his colleague Or Michael Berlowitz: Episode 23
Abi’s blog post on the Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics

Creators & Guests

Host
Abi Noda
Abi is the founder and CEO of DX (getdx.com), which helps engineering leaders measure and improve developer experience. Abi formerly founded Pull Panda, which was acquired by GitHub.

What is Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda?

This is a weekly podcast focused on developer productivity and the teams and leaders dedicated to improving it. Topics include in-depth interviews with Platform and DevEx teams, as well as the latest research and approaches on measuring developer productivity. The EE podcast is hosted by Abi Noda, the founder and CEO of DX (getdx.com) and published researcher focused on developing measurement methods to help organizations improve developer experience and productivity.