Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda Trailer Bonus Episode 75 Season 1

Getting Airbnb’s Platform team to drive more impact: Reorganizing, defining strategy, and metrics

Getting Airbnb’s Platform team to drive more impact: Reorganizing, defining strategy, and metricsGetting Airbnb’s Platform team to drive more impact: Reorganizing, defining strategy, and metrics

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In this episode, Airbnb Developer Productivity leader Anna Sulkina shares the story of how her team transformed itself and became more impactful within the organization. She starts by describing how the team previously operated, where teams were delivering but felt they needed more clarity and alignment across teams. Then, the conversation digs into the key changes they made, including reorganizing the team, clarifying team roles, defining strategy, and improving their measurement systems. 

Mentions and links
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  • For A deeper look into how our Engineers and Data Scientists build a world of belonging, check out The Airbnb Tech Blog
Discussion points:
  • (0:00) Intro
  • (1:40) Skills that make a great developer productivity leader
  • (4:36) Challenges in how the team operated previously
  • (10:49) Changing the platform org’s focus and structure
  • (16:04) Clarifying roles for EM’s, PM’s, and tech leads
  • (20:22) How Airbnb defined its infrastructure org’s strategy
  • (28:23) Improvements they’ve seen to developer experience satisfaction
  • (32:13) The evolution of Airbnb’s developer experience survey

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.