Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

Christopher Sanson is a product manager at Airbnb who is dedicated to enhancing developer productivity and tooling. Today, we learn more about Airbnb's developer productivity team and how various teams use metrics, both within and outside the organization. From there, we dive even deeper into their measurement journey, highlighting their implementation of DORA metrics and the challenges they overcame throughout the process.

Discussion points:
  • (2:43) Who is the developer productivity customer
  • (4:49) The evolution of developer productivity at Airbnb
  • (9:26) Approach before DORA metrics
  • (14:29) Getting buy-in for DORA metrics
  • (17:49) Planning how to deliver new metrics to the organization
  • (21:12) How Airbnb calculates deployment frequency
  • (23:29) Implementing a proof of concept
  • (27:20) Statistical measurement strategies and tactics
  • (31:11) Operationalizing developer productivity metrics
  • (34:26) How Airbnb reviews data
  • (35:41) How Airbnb uses DORA metrics

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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.