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
Jul 30, 2023 positive
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 …”
Dec 1, 2023 negative
May 22, 2025 positive
Oct 19, 2025
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 …”
Oct 19, 2025 positive
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 …”