In a modern fast-moving business environment, we are obsessed with quantitative measurements. But without qualitative data, we might get the wrong impression and incentivize bad behavior. Today we talk with Dalia Havens, Vice-President of engineering at Netlify, about selecting appropriate metrics to measure outputs of your team, increase its productivity, and, most importantly, keep it happy. Building on her experience from Netlify, GitLab, SailPoint and IBM, she shares with us how to promote team health through positive metric-driven management. When you finish listening to the podcast, connect with Dalia on LinkedIn.
Mentioned in this episode:
Dalia Havens on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/daliahavens/
Netlify at https://www.netlify.com
GitLab at https://about.gitlab.com
IBM at https://www.ibm.com
SailPoint at https://www.sailpoint.com
SonarQube at https://www.sonarqube.org
Code Climate at https://codeclimate.com
John Doerr, Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525536221/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_15ClEbKXXGPGQ
Most of the time, we focus on a specific aspect of software development and maintenance and try to see how these small pieces fit in the big picture of working with legacy code. Not today, however. Today we talk with Abraham Marín-Pérez, an extremely active Java developer with more than ten years of experience in various industries, about THE big picture and why legacy code rocks! Abraham is the author of Real World Maintainable Software and a co-author of Continuous Delivery in Java, a Java news editor at InfoQ, an advisor at the Meet-a-Mentor London Group, and a regular speaker at well-known international events. On top of that, he helps to run the London Java Community. When you finish listening to the episode, make sure to visit Abraham’s blog From Fragile to Agile!
Mentioned in this episode:
Abraham on Twitter: https://twitter.com/abrahammarin?lang=en
Abraham on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abraham-marin-perez-45b88422/?originalSubdomain=uk
Real World Maintainable Software by Abraham Marín-Pérez at: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/real-world-maintainable-software/9781492042853/
Continuous Delivery in Java by Abraham Marín-Pérez and Daniel Bryant at:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/continuous-delivery-in/9781491986011/
Software Maintenance is an Anti-Pattern by Sarah Allen:
https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/02/23/software-maintenance-is-an-anti-pattern/
https://www.fromfragiletoagile.com