Transition from DevOps to Engineering Productivity

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The chapter discusses the signs that led the speaker to consider shifting from DevOps to Engineering Productivity. They explain how they learned about Engineering Productivity through Google's engineering productivity team and their research on teams focused on developer experience. The chapter also covers the importance of adding more people to the team and constructing a presentation to convince management to invest in this new approach.

In this episode, Abi speaks with Ana Petkovska, who is currently leading the developer experience team at Nexthink. Ana takes us through her journey of leading a DevOps team that underwent multiple transformations. She explains how her team went from being a DevOps team to EngProd and eventually DevEx. Ana elaborates on her team's challenges and the reasons behind the shift in focus. She also shares how she discovered EngProd and used data from companies like Google to convince her company to invest in EngProd. Finally, Ana explains how DevEx came into the picture and changed how her team approaches and measures their work.

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