While the past few years saw a big drive towards caring for employees, the last months have seen the pendulum swing in the other direction. The tech industry has been harrowed by layoffs and economic ...

“What gets measured,” the saying goes, “gets managed.” And if you want to change the way an organization goes about pursuing its goals, one way to do so is to change the metrics it tracks. The Defense ...

Software engineering teams have tried all sorts of ways to measure the software development process and developer productivity. Here’s why DORA metrics are becoming the industry standard. For years, ...

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The purpose of tracking and monitoring software engineering metrics is to assess the current product or process performance, enhance it, and anticipate the quality after the software development ...

Meaningfully measuring performance is one of the hardest tasks for team managers in Agile environments. It is not only difficult, but most of the time, adopting ephemeral metrics can become ...

Historically, many of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) major IT acquisition programs have taken longer than expected to develop or failed to deliver the desired value. In April 2016, to ...

Talented software developers bristle at the idea of being closely managed. Here are seven ways to align development teams and business objectives without making developers miserable. I’ve been asked ...

SDLC guides teams to plan, build, test, and deliver software. Discover phases, KPIs, tools, and checklist with our quick start guide. Picture this: You and your team have spent a tremendous amount of ...

Around two years ago, with the help of the polling firm Survation, I studied developer burnout and found that 83% of developers reported suffering from burnout. Over the past few months, I’ve studied ...