developer productivity

6 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 30, 2023 by Nicole Forsgren · across every show →

Everything said about developer productivity, oldest first

Jul 30, 2023
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Forsgren: The SPACE framework requires measuring at least three dimensions simultaneously
“Now, to use space correctly, we want to use at least three dimensions at a time, because that helps us balance.”
Nicole Forsgren Jul 30, 2023 ▶ 32:22 How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, Github)
Jul 30, 2023 positive
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Forsgren: Developer satisfaction strongly correlates with overall productivity and system stability
“This actually matters because we find that satisfaction well-being ends up being incredibly highly correlated with all of the other dimensions of productivity and doing things well. And as soon as satisfaction well-being, things like sustainability, if you're …”
Nicole Forsgren Jul 30, 2023 ▶ 31:00 How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, Github)
Dec 1, 2023 negative
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GitHub CPO: Raw coding speed fails as a developer productivity metric
“The most easiest one is time, but time is, it's funny what I'm going to say, but time is not quantifiable. As a success metrics, because you can write really bad code really fast.”
Inbal Shani Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 22:07 The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
May 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AI coding co-pilots deliver an 18% to 25% productivity boost for developers
“Rough data, maybe somewhere between 18 to 25% productivity boost for a developer, which is fairly massive, right?”
Mayur Kamat May 22, 2025 ▶ 1:16:15 Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
Oct 19, 2025
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Forsgren: High-toil engineering workflows drive burnout and block innovation
“If you're getting there in ways that are high toil or high friction, then at some point a developer is going to burn out. Or if it's, you know, super high cognitive load, if it's hard to even think about what you're doing, because you're concentrating on like …”
Nicole Forsgren Oct 19, 2025 ▶ 8:00 How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
Oct 19, 2025 positive
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Forsgren: Frame engineering productivity metrics using leadership's strategic terminology
“If you can solve a problem that they have, or it's like something that they're focused on, if you can slightly reframe it even, right? Like if they're calling everything developer productivity, go ahead and call it productivity. If they're calling it velocity …”
Nicole Forsgren Oct 19, 2025 ▶ 50:50 How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
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