Pulling the Lyrics: A Tool That Can Measure Developer Productivity

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Pull Panda was a tool that pulled data from your GitHub repositories. It gave you charts, metrics, leaderboards and all kinds of stuff pertaining to what was going on in your development team. But when he looked at the user engagement, just, are people really using this? Are people getting value out of this? And so I began to probe.

This week Adam is joined by Abi Noda, founder and CEO of DX to talk about DX AKA DevEx (or the long-form Developer Experience). Since the dawn of software development there has been this push to understand what makes software teams efficient, but more importantly what does it take to understand developer productivity? That’s what Abi has been focused on for the better part of the last 8 years of his career. He started a company called Pull Panda that was acquired by GitHub, spent a few years there on this problem before going out on his own to start DX which helps startups to the fortune 500 companies gather real insights that leads to real improvement.

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