Developer analytics tools only make sense for teams over 20 engineers
Zoltán Peresztegi · 1631 His Argument For Moving from SaaS to On Prem · Jan 11, 2020 · at 3:51
Zoltán Peresztegi, co-founder of Gitential, discusses the target team size and organizational dynamics that make developer productivity software valuable.
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“Usually where we start to make sense is like, I would say, 20 to 30 developers is the minimum team size where, where you start to make sense. And the more you're outsourcing and the more distributed your teams are you know, that means there's less like person to person, real life communication, the more you need the objective the objective like values that, that we actually provide.”
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