Engineering Intelligence #25
What’s on our minds…
Expertise and experience are important components of successful leadership, but they’re not enough. In our upcoming webinar, find out how seasoned engineering leaders leverage objective data to level up their leadership and make informed choices that drive departmental success.
Without objective data, it’s nearly impossible for engineering teams to set specific, actionable goals —?the kind of goals that help teams make meaningful progress. In this blog post, we outline why data is essential to effective goal-setting and offer strategies for helping teams achieve success.
Baseball management and engineering leadership have more in common than you might think. In this blog post, we dive into the metrics-first world of Moneyball and find out what engineering leaders stand to learn from sabermetrics and the MLB.?
Used thoughtfully, engineering metrics can help you increase alignment, improve team performance, and meet delivery commitments. Download our latest ebook to learn more about using engineering metrics to keep development and business goals on track.?
What we’re reading…
In this series of posts, Mojtaba Hosseini, Sr. Director of Engineering at Zapier, shares key learnings from his own experiences implementing engineering metrics on DevOps teams.
One key takeaway? It’s important for teams to start measuring something, even if it’s not perfect. If you’ve got questions for Mojtaba after reading, you can bring them to our upcoming webinar.?
Juan Pablo Buriticá, SVP of Engineering at Richie Bros., talks through his own metrics journey, offering up best practices for selecting metrics and using them to guide management decisions.?
In this webinar from LeadDev, engineering leaders from Replicated, Code Climate, and more share their tips for using metrics to spot potential problems and measure team impact.?