Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

Thansha Sadacharam, who leads Tech Learning and Insights at Peloton walks us through the journey of building the company’s developer experience survey. She shares what went into the survey’s design, rollout, and maintenance, as well as the different teams involved.

Discussion points: 
  • (1:19) Where the idea for running a developer survey originated
  • (6:36) Advice for other leaders getting buy-in for these initiatives
  • (11:27) The first steps in designing the survey
  • (18:21) How the survey incorporated benchmarking
  • (20:30) Measuring developer satisfaction
  • (22:37) Refining the question items 
  • (25:50) How long the survey was
  • (26:50) What was involved in trimming the questions 
  • (29:28) Writing survey questions 
  • (33:12) How much time was spent developing the survey
  • (35:19) The communication plan for launching the survey
  • (42:05) Driving participation rates  
  • (45:21) Sampling and how often surveys are being sent 
  • (49:21) How the information was presented 
  • (54:10) Feeling nervous about sending out surveys 

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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.