In episode 4 of Sleuth TV Live, Sleuth's CTO Don Brown and CEO Dylan Etkin had an engaging, insightful conversation about how DORA metrics connect to your people and how they play into developers' happiness.

Check out specific points in the conversation:

1:46 Can and should you measure developer productivity?

5:40 Productivity is relevant - news headlines

12:50 Welcome Dylan Etkin

14:04 Can and should you measure developer productivity?
16:54: Does it boil down to issue trackers?

18:56 What about activity as a productivity measure?

21:45 The danger of comparing developers

24:40 Productivity is a team sport

28:50 DORA metrics recap

30:55 How DORA metrics aid developer & team productivity

32:34 DORA and developer happiness

36:07 No silver bullets

37:38 SPACE framework

41:14 Comparing SPACE and DORA

44:20 Balancing hard and soft measures

49:10 Advice for junior devs

51:40 Advice for new team leads

54:57 Next episode: Does accuracy matter?

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Google CEO to employees: Productivity and focus must improve: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/31/google-ceo-to-employees-productivity-and-focus-must-improve.html
• Zuck turns up the heat: https://www.theverge.com/23277797/mark-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-employees-pressure
• Don’t be Meta or Google: How to tell workers they need to be more productive https://www.protocol.com/meta-google-employee-productivity
• Amazon’s Use Of Algorithms To Increase Employees’ Productivity: Fair Or Not? https://analyticsindiamag.com/amazons-use-of-algorithms-to-increase-employees-productivity-fair-or-not/
• $15 billion delivery startup Gopuff tried to rip out a page from Amazon’s playbook https://www.businessinsider.com/gopuff-hiring-amazon-executives-destroyed-operations-2022-9
• Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/08/31/engineering-metrics.html
• The space of developer productivity https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm
• Guide to SPACE framework and metrics for developer productivity https://www.shakebugs.com/blog/dev-space-framework/#What_is_the_SPACE_framework

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