Developer {Productivity + Well Being} = Driving Engineering Excellence
2022 has been revolutionary in terms of how workspaces have transformed in the post pandemic world. Not many of them have reverted to a fully functional work from office culture yet. A lot of them have taken to a hybrid model and some have resorted to a completely remote model. We have seen this upfront while talking to a lot of prospects and customers onboarding with us across the globe (US and India in particular).?
(Btw, which one are you? Let us know in comments below ??)
The #1 challenge most of them come up with their distributed teams is the lack of visibility into the overall BIG picture - in terms of distribution of work amongst the team, criticality of the projects, effort and time spent, resource allocation, in terms of bottlenecks, and process inefficiencies.?
It has become difficult for everyone to see how their teams are doing, how much effort is being spent on features vs bugs, and what bottlenecks they’re facing in the project lifecycle. Lack of communication further aggravates the challenges.?
This problem is even more stark when it comes to engineering teams and leadership. Achieving engineering excellence while offering a great developer experience is a challenge that remains unsolved.?
However, we at Hatica have discovered that if organizations aim to drive engineering excellence they need to focus on 2 Key Pillars viz:?
Our product continuously strives to strike a balance between the two with its new features and functionalities. And in this edition of our Newsletter, we bring to you comprehensive articles on how to achieve both.
1. Navigating the Developer Productivity Crisis
Despite an uptick in the average software developer's salary, engineering hirings are a mess. Even though 2022 produced 373 tech unicorns, the year also saw the great engineering resignation kicking in. This structural dualism in tech has a core reason: The developers are unhappy, unsatisfied, and, even somewhere, unproductive. ??
Developer productivity has become a global phenomenon with even the trillion-dollar giant, Google talking about it. Today, most businesses are at a loss of $300 billion annually due to low developer productivity.?
Read more to find out what kills developer productivity, inefficient developer workflows, alignment challenges between business and engineering teams, overflowing of non-core tasks, and much more.?
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2. How to run an effective Daily Standup using Hatica?
Daily standup meetings are a traditional practice for scrum teams. 87% of the managers have found standups effective to resolve communication debt, clearing project timelines, and even creating better professional relationships. But what measures the success of standups??
Read on to know more about setting up your daily standup meeting agenda, shortcomings of the Standups, moving to async standups, and how Hatica Check-in is changing the way the world conducts standups!
3. Can deep work solve the problem of developer burnout?
We all need that uninterrupted time to focus on the work we love to do and produce effective results. But how often do we get such time frames in a given day or a week?
For software developers, deep work is the time that they spend on writing or improving code. Writing code is the process of developing a solution to the problem or task at hand.?
But instead of focusing on code to build out features, their productivity is dragged away by pagerduty alerts, waiting for testing results, flaky builds, meetings that could have been asynchronous chats, interviews, and many others that hamper their focus times which are precursors to burnout.
Well, we can’t emphasize enough how important it is to focus on developer well-being to push productivity and drive engineering excellence. But G2 Winter Report 2023 is out and the Software Development Analytics space is surely making some noise.?
Hatica has received High-Performer ?? and Users Love Us ?? badges with 98% Likelihood to be Recommended, the highest in the category. Hatica is also ranked #1 for Productivity Updates and Meets Requirements. So, we are glad that Team Hatica is making strides in the right direction. [ Details here ]
In case your team is struggling with similar issues, and you wish to have a Happy 2023 for your tech teams - get in touch with the Hatica team or Naomi Chopra , the CEO himself who loves to listen and help you solve these concerns for your engineering teams! And make you ready for 2023!
Signing off for 2022
Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in advance! ??