chrismo - Developer Productivity

Room to Move

by chrismo on February 13, 2018

In his book, Slack, Tom DeMarco writes: Slack is a prescription for building a capacity to change into the modern enterprise. It looks into the heart of the efficiency-flexibility quandary: The more efficient you get, the harder it is to change. The book shows managers how to make their organizations…

General Productivity Mystery Science

Healthy Teams Are Productive Teams

by chrismo on January 30, 2018

I’ve had the privilege of working remote for over 6 years at LivingSocial/Groupon and lately at Mystery Science. Remote work still gets big time plugs, but it seems many places, including young, hip startups don’t buy it, that co-location is an important attribute for a team. And…

General Productivity Mystery Science Meetup

2.76x Developer: Habits of a productive developer

by chrismo on January 15, 2018

Chris Morris of MysteryScience.com talks about the habits and tools of a productive developer.…

About Developer Productivity

Productivity is defined as “the effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.” Therefore, developer Productivity can be described as a concept, set of tools or processes, or a team that is dedicated to enhancing the efficiency of other developers with the goal of allowing them to increase their overall output.

This concept and the responsibilities of the team in charge of developer productivity can be varied throughout different companies, however after a number of meetings it became clear that the teams mostly focus on a few key areas. Unfortunately, the developers at different companies don’t seem to discuss, have meet-ups, or work together on allied goals.