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EP_11024.10.2024

Rebecca Murphey // Field CTO @ Swarmia

Rebecca Murphey · Field CTO, Swarmia
Rebecca Murphey // Field CTO @ Swarmia

Become a more effective team in this CTO podcast featuring Rebecca Murphey, Field CTO of Swarmia and co-author of Build. From her years of experience working in the developer productivity organizations at Stripe and Indeed and now at Swarmia, Rebecca knows this conversation isn’t just about developer metrics and productivity - it’s about the broader picture 🖼️. How do we align 🧭 our engineering with business outcomes💸, developer experience 😀AND developer productivity⚡.  And just as important, how do we communicate what we’re doing (and not doing) to other stakeholders?

Listen to find out:

  • 🔄 Queuing Theory as a paradigm for developer workflow evaluation
  • ⏳ How to allocate time for different engineering tasks
  • 👥 Team Metrics vs. 🧑‍💻 Individual Metrics
  • 📊 Metrics: DORA, SPACE, BRAINs, and more
  • ⚖️ The ethical debate on tracking developer metrics
  • 🤔 If you optimize for the quarter, do you de-optimize for the future?

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