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How Google measures developer productivity | Ciera Jaspan, Collin Green (Google)

Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

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How to Measure Tech Debt With Surveys

Sierra: We started measuring technical debt with surveys in 2018. Sierra was involved in trying to use that as a basis for then going to objective metrics from the code base and saying like, can we see these things from that angle? Now that we have engineers telling us what kinds of where to look, can we find it in the code base? That lets us understandlike, where the big challenges are. And it also lets like product areas or teams know, hey, my engineers are saying they're bothered by technical debt. Like, what flavor is it? What can I do about it? If it's a migration or if it's like dead code or whatever, I know then what

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