
DX on DX (Interview)
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This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda, founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient, but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? That’s what Abi has been focused on for the better part of the last 8 years of his career. He started a company called Pull Panda that was acquired by GitHub, spent a few years there on this problem before going out on his own to start DX which helps startups to the fortune 500 companies gather real insights that leads to real improvement.
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- DX
- GitHub acquires Pull Panda
- DevOps Research and Assessment
- A Better Way to Measure Developer Productivity
- DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
- How Google Measures and Manages Tech Debt
- Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt
- Changelog Interviews #527: What it takes to scale engineering (with Rachel Potvin)
- Dr. Nicole Forsgren Joins DX
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 1:13Sponsor: Sentry
- 4:46Start the show!
- 8:19Falling in love with DX
- 10:21DevX vs DX?
- 13:14DX vs developer productivity
- 16:04How devs value their work
- 20:49Let's go back to Pull Panda
- 27:34Getting devs to be truthful
- 35:05Why hasn't this been done before?
- 38:08Abi shares example questions
- 53:55Sponsor: Caisy
- 56:45Is DX just a survey company?
- 1:00:47Are you transforming companies?
- 1:02:50Who cares about DX?
- 1:06:56What size company does this?
- 1:11:04DX team of 1
- 1:23:12The DX playbook
- 1:25:44Let's give a prescription for DX
- 1:28:57Why do people fill out these surveys?
- 1:34:21Wrapping up
- 1:35:28Teasing the BONUS