GORUCO 2017 Developer Productivity Engineering

At Strava we are experimenting with a framework we call Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE). DPE applies the principles of Site Reliability Engineering, developed by Google, to improving productivity through automation for both individual engineers and engineering organizations. This talk is an overview of the DPE framework and our experience with it so far.

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1. Developer Productivity Engineering Pan Thomakos @panthomakos
3. productivity engineering
4. make others more productive
5. productive
6. focus on challenging interesting
7. focus on repetitive mindless
8. automation
10. framework
11. DPE developer productivity engineering
12. SRE site reliability engineering
13. engineering for site reliability
14. engineering for developer productivity
15. identify measure prioritize
16. identify
17. duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction - Sandi Metz
18. work to maintain automation > time saved by automation
19. #toil
20. manual
21. repetitive
22. automatable
23. tactical
24. no enduring value
25. scale linearly with growth
26. #toil manual repetitive automatable tactical no enduring value scale linearly
27. #toil manual
28. #toil manual repetitive
29. #toil manual repetitive automatable
30. #toil manual repetitive automatable tactical
31. #toil manual repetitive automatable tactical no enduring value
32. #toil manual repetitive automatable tactical no enduring value scale linearly
33. you identified toil
34. measure
35. don’t time track #friendsDontMakeFriendsTrackTheirTime
36. productive work is highly varied writing documentation learning something new reviewing code
37. indirect approach
38. focus on the bad parts
39. toil engineers report that they spend 1hr per week fixing code style violations
40. existing automation it takes 1hr to run automated tests on the CI server
41. you indirectly measured productivity
42. prioritize
43. OMFG we have so much #toil, not enough time
44. toil cost how much time do we spend on this task every month?
45. implementation cost how many hours will a solution take to implement?
46. maintenance cost how many hours will a solution take to maintain every month?
47. onboarding cost how long before a new engineer can perform this task?
49. Strava (we are hiring) Pan Thomakos @panthomakos https://goo.gl/GY4Yh1