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The case for engineering automation

When you survey developers on how to improve engineering practices and their daily job experience, their answers invariably include getting rid of little annoying things - what's called toil. Toil is manual and repetitive tasks that waste your time. Toil is arguably worse than crisis, because a crisis is temporary and firefighting can feel rewarding when it's over. Toil is more like a death march - an insidious force that eventually leads to burnout.

Impossible! Do Developers Really Mean This?

Impossible! Do software developers really mean this when they're estimating projects? Maybe, but they might not realize that even if a project is technically impossible, sometimes getting close is good enough. Here's part 2 of 4 of Sleuth's CTO and cofounder, Don Brown's take on decoding developer speak. Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.

Trivial? THIS is What Developers Really Mean!

Trivial? THIS is What Developers Really Mean! Software development managers, do you really understand your developers? Here's your guide to speaking developer, Part 1 of 4, from Sleuth's CTO and cofounder, Don Brown. Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.

Do you think of software developer toil like Atlassian, LaunchDarkly, Okteto and Sleuth?

Do you think of software developer toil like Atlassian, LaunchDarkly, Okteto and Sleuth? Hear how leaders from these SaaS companies deal with toil on their teams. Toil for software developers includes repetitive tasks that could be automated, things that waste time and prevent you from investing in the future. These manual processes weigh down developers and the software development process, and can lead to burnout.

Software Teams: You Could Be Getting More from DORA Metrics

Software teams: You could be getting more from DORA metrics. The metrics are great for measuring software delivery, but they lack context for how to improve software development. Sleuth’s new Goals feature helps DevOps teams create and own goals that matter the most to them, enabling a bottom-up approach to software engineering improvement. Give Sleuth a try and see how we empower software teams to build faster by making engineering efficiency easy to improve and measurable — in a way that both managers and developers love.

Improve the engineering goals you care about: Sleuth's new Goals & Automations feature

Matt Upton, Director of Software Development at Rewind, joined Sleuth's Don Brown and Daniel de Juan to take our new Goals and Automations feature for a test drive. Hear reactions and input from Matt on how he sees the Goals feature being useful for his teams: ‍Key sections: Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

Improve engineering teams faster with DORA metrics

We talk with numerous teams that want to improve their engineering performance. Here, we explain how to accelerate your progress using DORA metrics — a set of key performance indicators that can help you measure and optimize your team's software development process. You'll learn practical tips on how to leverage these metrics to achieve faster and more efficient team improvement. But first, you'll need your team to see the value in DORA metrics.