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Staff engineers shift from solving problems to shaping systems
Become unnecessary, not indispensable.
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The tokenmaxxing hype didn’t last long
Why Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft killed their token use leaderboards.
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In partnership with DX
AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x
The benchmark is wrong, not the results.
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In partnership with Octopus DeployMeasuring productivity without freaking people out
How to keep a healthy culture when you put developers under the microscope
Editor’s picks
How to measure the impact of engineering in 2025
As we look to 2025, here’s four trends to look out for when it comes to measuring developer productivity.
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.
Berlin • November 9 & 10, 2026
Close the gap between what leadership expects and what’s actually possible at LeadDev Berlin.
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.
The metrics you loved to hate in 2024
And other key findings from the 2024 LeadDev Engineering Team Performance report.
What are qualitative productivity metrics – and how do we measure them?
If your team is hitting key delivery metrics, we assume everything in the lifecycle before production is sound. However, we know that traditional metrics only tell half the story.
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.
Reporting effectively to the board
Accurately represent the impact of your org to senior stakeholders.
The festival for modern engineering leadership
New York • September 15 & 16, 2026
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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.
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Using success metrics to foster autonomy in engineering teams
How to use success criteria to set expectations and empower developers.
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Want to accelerate incident response? Empower customer service teams.
Great customer service requires alignment between CSOps and DevOps. Here’s how to bring them closer together.
Top Reporting videos
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In partnership with Instana
Instana’s approach to observability
This demo will cover Instana’s observability platform and automated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution, designed specifically for the challenges of managing microservice and cloud-native applications.
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In partnership with LinearB
Start your Engineering Metrics Program with LinearB
We’re going to show you the most important team-based metrics to track, how to identify workflow bottlenecks and proven tactics for improvement.
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Getting your engineers on board with observability
Do your engineers have visibility into your systems?
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What engineering leaders should be measuring
Understand the best methods for analyzing the right data
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Tradeoffs on the road to observability
SRE and infrastructure engineering are about allocating adequate time to do project work that improves the long-term sustainability of our services. But what do we reward SREs for doing? Does your company have a culture of “not invented here” or the converse of “ask the consultants to design it for us”?
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Embedding observability into your engineering culture
The journey to thoroughly understanding your systems.
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Creating efficient, accurate, software estimations
Estimating projects is hard. Whether it’s negotiating technical debt, understanding new requirements, or grappling with a lack of useful documents; the number of moving variables make it difficult to judge just how long a project will really take.
