DPE Tour Seattle

Sanjay Garg from the Microsoft Teams engineering systems team is responsible for the entire infrastructure associated with the Microsoft Teams Developer Productivity. Sanjay will share their team’s developer productivity engineering wins, key metrics they measure and initiatives. He will share how their DPE initiatives improved PR’s merged and release velocity with a focus on reliability and software quality. He will also discuss how they created a culture of engineering fundamentals and how they build DPE into the DNA of all of their teams.

Measuring developer productivity is hard. Improving it is even harder. Recent frameworks do an amazing job at the measurement conversation, which explains why so many groups are spinning up dashboards to help their leaders understand productivity. However, these dashboards are often treated as the end-result. I’m here to tell you that dashboards are only a means to an end, and we need to move away from dashboards in order to improve productivity.

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!