Measuring and understanding the productivity of engineers is a contentious topic. However, being able to do it effectively can help you choose, and get buy-in on the right projects in order to super charge an engineering organization.
At Stripe we heavily invest in the productivity of our engineers, and this talk will walk you through the mistakes made and lessons learned in our approach to measuring Developer Productivity, and how we use the measurements we make to derive insights and choose what to work on.
Ainsley is a Staff Software Engineer at Stripe where he has worked on Developer Productivity for the last 5 years.He is currently the technical lead of an organization of over 100 engineers responsible for understanding the productivity of engineers at Stripe and building tooling and experiences that improve the effectiveness and happiness of engineers....