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Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

How LinkedIn defines and tracks key developer productivity metrics | Grant Jenks (LinkedIn)

Dec 6, 2023
52:23
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Abi Noda chats with Grant Jenks from LinkedIn about their developer insights platform, iHub. They discuss qualitative versus quantitative metrics, choosing the right metrics, and using AI in developer productivity teams. Topics covered include winsorized means, composite scores, and the difficulties of answering simple questions.
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Quick takeaways

  • LinkedIn's developer insights platform, iHub, collects build, CI, and deployment data to provide teams with valuable metrics and data for data-informed decisions.
  • Combining qualitative and quantitative metrics is crucial for obtaining actionable insights in the productivity space, as subjective human input and objective machine-derived metrics both offer valuable perspectives.

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LinkedIn's developer insights platform iHub and its history

Grant Janks discusses LinkedIn's developer insights platform called iHub and its history. The platform collects build data, CI data, and deployment data using business intelligence tools like Power BI and Tableau. The goal is to provide a single destination for metrics and data, allowing teams to understand and manage their metrics effectively to make data-informed decisions.

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