Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

Explore the journey of DoorDash's developer portal with Adam Rogal, from initial vision to driving adoption. Learn about funding, name selection, and valuable advice for beginners. Discover strategies for getting feedback, driving awareness, and what could have been done differently. Dive into practical leadership tips and the importance of developer tools for enhancing productivity.

Rebecca Parsons, CTO at Thoughtworks, along with Camilla Crispim and Erik Dörnenburg, discuss the Thoughtworks Tech Radar. They cover its origins, impact on decision-making, and the philosophy behind it. They also talk about maintaining independence for their audience, the publication process, and recent changes. This episode offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the history and production of Tech Radar.

Eirini Kalliamvakou, a staff researcher at GitHub, talks about how AI coding assistance impacts developer productivity. They discuss recent research on AI tools, key findings from the study, and how to advocate for AI tools. They also explore the implications of AI on measuring productivity and the impact of AI on developer experience.

Christopher Sanson, a product manager at Airbnb dedicated to enhancing developer productivity and tooling, discusses Airbnb's measurement journey, including their implementation of DORA metrics. He covers topics such as their approach before DORA metrics, planning the delivery of new metrics to the organization, and how Airbnb uses DORA metrics to review data and measure specific initiatives.

Ana Petkovska, currently leading the developer experience team at Nexthink, talks about her team's transformation from DevOps to EngProd to DevEx. She shares her inspiration from Google's engineering productivity team and explains how she convinced her company to invest in EngProd. Ana discusses the challenges of optimizing team size and the importance of developing a mission for the team. She also explores the concept of Devx (Developer Experience) and the specific changes made in her team for a better digital employee experience.

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.

Jim Beyers, VP of Engineering Enablement at CVS Health, discusses building an internal developer platform, aligning with transformation goals, defining strategy, leveraging GCP, team building, collaboration, and reporting progress.

Nils Loodin, Platform PM at Spotify, discusses unique challenges and recent changes in Spotify's platform organization. Topics include developer experience, team structure, focus of the Platform PM role, attracting PMs into Platform roles, and measuring onboarding.

Justin Wright and Matthew Dimich, leaders at Thomson Reuters, discuss the evolution of their organization's structure and approach. They cover topics such as founding the platform team, key initiatives, the value of enablement, marketing the enablement team's work, and managing requests vs proactive work.

Nathen Harvey from DORA at Google shares key findings from the State of DevOps Report. Topics include user-centric software development, impact of documentation on software delivery, reemergence of the Elite cluster, and the role of AI in software delivery.