Team Workflow & Developer Experience
How work is sized, sequenced, and made cheap to do — and how you'd know it isn't.
5 topics
Measuring delivery & developer experience
The four DORA metrics measure the system rather than the people, and they're the credible answer to "how do you know your team is doing well?"
core22 minPlanning, estimation & scope
Estimates are forecasts under uncertainty, so give ranges with their driving unknown, and cut scope rather than quality when the date is fixed.
core20 minShipping incrementally
Slice work so each piece is independently valuable and deployable, and use flags to keep unfinished work in production without exposing it.
core20 minLocal environments & onboarding
Time from clone to first merged PR is the single most diagnostic number about a codebase's health, and it's almost always fixable.
core18 minRemote & async collaboration
Distributed teams work when decisions are written down by default and synchronous time is spent only on what genuinely needs it.
core18 min