Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

Emanuel Mueller Ramos, Head of Developer Experience at Skyscanner, shares his insights on transforming his team into a customer-centric powerhouse. He discusses gaining stakeholder buy-in, redefining productivity metrics, and prioritizing developer happiness. Emanuel highlights the importance of feedback loops in shifting from frameworks to a culture of collaboration. He also dives into the intricate balance between platform teams and developer experience, stressing that true success lies in measuring impact rather than just tool adoption.

Industry leaders from GitHub, Airbnb, and Jumio discuss the impact of GenAI tools on developer productivity, exploring AI's evolving role in engineering, overcoming friction points, AI-driven chat assistants reshaping workflows, and the vision for coding.

Jared Wolinsky, VP of Platform Engineering at SiriusXM, discusses revamping their platform with a focus on aligning projects with business goals. He shares insights on boosting developer speed and driving tech advancement. Topics include challenges in transforming their streaming platform, building a new cloud footprint, enhancing developer platform and experience, stakeholder engagement, balancing enablement and platform efforts, and utilizing prioritization frameworks for project ideation.

Michelle Swartz, VP of Developer Enablement at American Express, shares insights on enhancing developer experience. Topics include onboarding bootcamp creation, AmEx Way Library development, balancing standardization and flexibility with Paved Roads, measuring success, fostering community, and elevating tech credibility.

CTO Laura Tacho and CEO Abi Noda discuss DORA, SPACE, and DevEx frameworks, their benefits, and challenges. They share insights on choosing the right framework, using DORA effectively, and practical applications in organizations.

Derek Debellis, lead researcher on Google's DORA team, discusses the science behind DORA's research, including defining outcomes, survey design, model analysis, and survey development. He also talks about the nuances of literature review, benchmarks, and balancing data limitations with method sensitivity.

Sean Mcllroy from Slack's Release Engineering team discusses fully automating deploys and anomaly detection. Topics include the challenges of the deployment process, using Z-scores for anomaly detection, managing noise, automating deployments for efficiency, and handling large deployments to improve reliability.

Thoughtworks Head of Developer Experience, Chris Westerhold, discusses the rising interest in developer portals, pitfalls to avoid, building vs. buying, driving value, and common mistakes. Explore the evolution of internal developer portals and strategies for optimizing success in this insightful conversation.

Kent Wills, Director of Engineering at Yelp, discusses the evolution of developer productivity efforts. Topics include forming the team, managing code ownership in a monolith, building a design system, standardization, LLM implementation, and demonstrating the value of their work.

Learn how instructional engineers at Splunk improve developer onboarding, measuring its success and impact. Gail Carmichael shares insights on the Engineering Enablement Team, components of a good onboarding program, and the importance of such programs. Discover the challenges and methods of measuring developer onboarding success, and the evolution of instructional engineering at Splunk.