The survey didn't just involve things that my team of five people or eight people cared about. We had a whole application development group, I think, which involved developer effectiveness. And it was kind of a shared effort. In a sense, we ran the survey, we would collect the results and we would create a report with all of these different platform teams to give them specific insight.
Utsav Shah, who leads Platform at Vanta and previously led Developer Effectiveness at Dropbox, shares the story of Dropbox’s journey with measuring developer productivity. Utsav discusses what he learned about both system and survey-based measures, his opinion on the usefulness of common Git metrics, and more.