Grant shares how they captured productivity engineering metrics from teams/products/projects from when he worked on the developer insights team at LinkedIn. Grant discusses how they collect, aggregate, analyze, and visualize the metrics for engineering leaders and productivity champions. Grant also surfaces examples of impactful metrics, such as the median duration that PR authors wait for feedback in code reviews.

Unlocking the productive potential of your teams is about more than just software tools, it’s about shifting the focus back to the driving force behind it all: the developers themselves. Join us for a discussion on how Microsoft uses a blend of research techniques to build an understanding of the human factors that impact developer productivity and what they do about it.

We’ll share the practical tips and strategies that our teams use to measurably improve their developer experiences. What is the empirical impact of meetings on developer productivity? How do different hybrid work policies change job satisfaction? How much does dealing with bureaucratic toil make developers want to quit? What is the #1 most frequently cited workplace challenge amongst developers across the entire industry? Learn the answers to these questions and more!

It is well known that organizations connect software testing with software quality – making sure that the code does what it is supposed to do. Organizations say that due to a slow testing process, they are not able to meet set milestones. It doesn’t have to be this way. The testing stage is also part of the developer experience. Making it such that engineers are productive and continue delivering software not only fast but with confidence is crucial. In this talk, Aubrey will explore a few approaches that Netflix is taking in order to deliver a more consistent and delightful testing experience for JVM engineers at Netflix. The end goal: speed up engineers’ feedback loop by running tests locally constantly as much as possible.

In today’s world, regulated customers are no longer asking if they are going to cloud, but when, and how quickly.  As the largest financial services companies begin their cloud transformation journey, the leaders are seeing that in order to truly maximize the value of cloud adoption, consolidating to a more streamlined software delivery, and platform engineering function is critical to their success.  This session will describe the state of state across regulated customers, and describe what best practices and platforms are being leveraged, to deliver on the promise of accelerated agility and innovation in the cloud.