Balancing Planning and Agility for Long-Term Goals

Kathryn Koehler is the Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix.

Her teams focus on the development environment and associated experiences, which enable and empower developers at Netflix to bootstrap, code, build, test, debug, and maintain software more effectively and efficiently.

Productivity is an ever-controversial topic in engineering, and with Kathryn we dived right into it! Here is what we talked about:

(00:00) Introduction

(03:54) Netflix Culture

(10:37) Developer Productivity

(22:54) Platform Teams

(28:57) Meetings, Processes & Planning

(41:26) Productivity Metrics

(52:44) Q&A: AI, metrics, remote

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