General Productivity - Developer Productivity

General Productivity Version Control and Hosting

Focusing on what's important: Managing GitHub notifications with Octobox

by Chris Arcand on February 22, 2018

Stop spending time organizing your GitHub notifications. Achieve greater productivity by quickly seeing what's actually important with Octobox.…

General Productivity Mystery Science

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…

Shopify Meetup General Productivity

Chat Ops and Developer Productivity

by Other on January 15, 2018

John Arthorne of Shopify talks about Chat Ops and Developer Productivity…

Meetup Datadog General Productivity

Datadog's Developer Productivity Team

by Other on January 15, 2018

Dan Benamy of Datadog talks about the developer environment and tools at Datadog.…

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.