Craft 2024 - Laura Tacho
Laura Tacho
CTO at DX
About Laura Tacho

Laura Tacho is CTO at DX, a developer experience company. She previously led teams at companies like CloudBees, Codeship, Aula Education, and Nova Credit. She’s an expert in building world-class engineering organisations that consistently deliver outstanding results. Laura has coached CTOs and other engineering leaders from startups to the Fortune 500, and also facilitates a popular course on metrics and engineering team performance.

Talk
Why Your Productivity Metrics Fail
Topics:
Software Delivery Craft Matters
leadership
organization
Level: General

“Picking metrics is the hardest part.” Wouldn’t it be great if that were true? The hardest part is everything around the metrics, and it’s those decisions that will determine whether your organisation is able to use metrics effectively – or if they’re actually going to cause your engineering culture to take a nosedive. In this talk, we’ll compare and contrast successful initiatives to improve deve...

Workshop
Measuring and Improving Developer Productivity
Topics:
Software Delivery Craft Matters
Level: General
9:00-17:00

Get expert guidance and live coaching to pick the right quantitative and qualitative metrics that will empower your team to achieve better results, using research-backed methods.Beyond just what to measure, we'll also talk about why to measure, go through examples of successful metrics initiatives, talk about measuring the impact of tools like GitHub Copilot, and more.This workshop includes:DORA m...