[Paper Suggestion] DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity

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Paper Suggestion

• Title: DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
• Link: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878

Content Summary

Engineering leaders have long sought to improve the productivity of their developers, but knowing how to measure or even define developer productivity has remained elusive. Past approaches, such as measuring the output of developers or the time it takes them to complete tasks, have failed to account for the complex and diverse activities that developers perform. Thus, the question remains: What should leaders measure and focus on to improve developer productivity?