DevEx
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Roblox creators earn over $1 billion annually through platform payouts
“Devex is well over a billion bucks a year, you know, that's the amount.”
Forsgren: Superior tools cannot overcome poor developer experience
“When DevEx is poor, everything else just isn't gonna help, right? The best processes, the best tools, the best Whatever magic you have, right? If the DevX is bad, everything kind of takes.”
Forsgren: DevEx relies on flow state, cognitive load, and feedback loops
“One way to talk about it is kind of three key things that Have components that are important of themselves. They also kind of reinforce each other. So flow state is one of them. Cognitive load is another, and then feedback loops are another.”
Forsgren: Improve DevEx by listening to engineers before building tools
“Start with listening and not with tools and automation. So many times companies are like, well, I'm just going to build this tool or going to, I'm going to build this thing. Often you build a thing that you yourself have had a challenge with, or that like is e…”
Forsgren: PMs have essential DevEx skills that engineering teams often miss
“I think it's particularly, particularly relevant for PMs because if you're PMing something that involves software and building and creating software, improving DevX will only help your team. And also you have Key skills and insights and instincts that are so i…”
Forsgren: Frame test suite cleanup as cloud cost savings for leadership
“If we can clean up a test and build suite to a developer, they really want to hear about time saved and More reliable systems, right? There's less toil because they don't have to keep rerunning tests or kind of go clean up test suites. From the business perspe…”
Forsgren: Run DevEx initiatives and productivity metrics like software products
“I think something that's important to think about in general is to bring a product mindset to any type of DevEx improvements that are happening, and also the metrics that we kind of collect and capture. And by that, I mean, we want to identify a problem, right…”