Engineering for Engineers

Do you want happy developers? Do you want to ship features faster? Do you want to figure out what cross-cutting concerns are going to impact your roadmap? Consider putting together a Developer Tools team.

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1. Engineering for engineers. Eric Sigler, Engineering Manager - Developer Tools, PagerDuty @esigler
2. @esigler I was honestly surprised this was only half a million results.
3. @esigler Manu Cornet / manucornet.net
4. This can bite you. @esigler
5. “We’ll put that on the backlog.” @esigler
6. @esigler My parents told me there are three things I shouldn’t do in public. Math is one of them.
7. Developer Tools Engineering Effectiveness Developer Productivity Engineering Infrastructure Developer Efficiency Developer Happiness @esigler
8. Have engineers tell the story of where they want to be, figure out the pitfalls along the way, then help them get there. @esigler
9. @esigler Solve a problem, make it easy, repeat.
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11. @esigler Build empathy early, you’ll need it.
12. Don't be the fire department. @esigler
13. Don't be the arsonists. @esigler
14. Don't sell out your customers. @esigler
15. Story time! @esigler
16. “We’re shipping in 4 weeks.” @esigler
17. @esigler
18. “It’s like living in the future.” @esigler
19. Invest in developer productivity by dedicating engineers to it. No seriously go read: gigamonkeys.com/flowers @esigler
20. Thank you! @esigler / eric@pagerduty.com