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How DX Core 4 aims to unify developer productivity frameworks
Can it bring together DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, to help inform diverse stakeholders?
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Why 70% of engineers avoid measuring lines of code
And four other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.
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Performance season made easy with this proven strategy
Performance review seasons are tense times for managers and reports alike. Here’s a system to smooth the process over.
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Content sponsored by Logz.ioAn engineer’s guide to making sense of log data
Cloud native technologies have made it harder to understand how systems are behaving. Logs are the answer, but how do you make sense of them?
Editor’s picks
What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity
The consulting giant kicked a hornet’s nest when it launched a framework to measure software developer productivity. Here’s what engineers think they got wrong.
Are DORA metrics right for your team?
DORA metrics can be a useful tool for tracking and improving performance. If you want the DORA 101 – look no further.
November 5, 2025
A unique one-day event for Heads, Directors, VPs and CTOs exploring core leadership challenges.
Essential reading
The Engineering Team Performance Report 2024
How do organizations measure their engineering team performance? We asked 900+ engineering leaders.
On our Reporting playlist
Make it count; A no-nonsense guide to engineering metrics for the busy leader
Gain practical insights on engineering metrics that help busy leaders prioritize effectively, address delivery challenges, and measure team performance to maximize impact and productivity.
Delivery metrics – the good, the bad and the utterly ridiculous
As an engineering team lead, I spent countless hours pouring over data points, spreadsheets, and graphs in search of the perfect set of metrics to measure our team’s success.
Don’t let metrics be a distraction
Setting and tracking metrics can be a tempting solution for many situations. In this talk, Jean Hsu covers a few common scenarios and how to integrate metrics with other approaches to get your desired results.
Metrics to measure developer experience
Tim will be exploring micro-feedback loops, taking a look at low level friction, how it can quickly compound to affect motivation and productivity.
Reporting effectively to the board
Accurately represent the impact of your org to senior stakeholders.
A festival of engineering leadership
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
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Solving the mean time to repair problem
Just how bad is the mean time to repair (MTTR) problem? And how can engineers circumvent common issues to reach their MTTR goals?
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How business alignment works in high-performing engineering teams
Business alignment is a crucial factor of organizational success and planning accuracy is the way to achieve it.
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The relationship between observability, OpenTelemetry, and UX
The missing piece to improving your user experience might just be adopting an observability strategy.
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Observability for engineering managers
Observability goes beyond logs, metrics, and traces, and it’s up to you as a manager of engineers to set out the vision and policies to make that possible.
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How to pay down your monitoring debt
Monitoring debt leads to alert fatigue and increased operational risk, is it time you performed an alert audit and got your monitoring in order?
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Using cooperative gaming to drive positive engineering change
Gaming engineering metrics doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. Here’s a model for cooperative gaming to drive positive technology change.
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The workflow metrics that make elite dev teams
DORA metrics aren’t enough on their own. By focusing on pull request size, dev teams can quickly improve their cycle times and development workflow and make the leap to elite performance.
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Why traditional observability tools aren’t cutting it anymore
Traditional observability solutions aren’t designed with engineers in mind. Here’s why companies are switching to developer-first tools.
Top Reporting videos
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Operational data meet organization silos
This talk will cover some of the tools Observe has to help understand operational issues faster, and reduce friction working on incidents across teams.
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The only two metrics you should show to your CEO
In this session, Dan Lines will give you the two metrics that matter most when answering the two most important questions.
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Developer productivity 2.0
In this session Gergely walks through a survey on how various engineering teams work, and what approaches they have found productive. He covers what developer productivity means, and approaches and tools that you can experiment with.
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The role of data in green software engineering
In this talk, Simon will go into detail about the planning of infrastructure and systems in both backend and frontend to reduce the environmental impact.
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Leading software teams with context (visibility)
In this talk, James will ground discussion on obtaining and measuring data that matters to give you visibility into your teams.
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The only two metrics you should show to your CEO
Which two metrics that matter most when answering the questions of is the project on time and how can we speed it up?
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Reporting effectively to the board
Accurately represent the impact of your org to senior stakeholders.
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What Dashboards Don’t Tell You
Laura Tacho explains how to spot vanity metrics in the wild, and learn what to measure instead, so you can create an environment where your engineers can excel.