Software engineering teams have tried all sorts of ways to measure the software development process and developer productivity. Here’s why DORA metrics are becoming the industry standard. For years, ...

While the past few years saw a big drive towards caring for employees, the last months have seen the pendulum swing in the other direction. The tech industry has been harrowed by layoffs and economic ...

“What gets measured,” the saying goes, “gets managed.” And if you want to change the way an organization goes about pursuing its goals, one way to do so is to change the metrics it tracks. The Defense ...

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LinearB, the company behind a “software delivery intelligence” platform for developers, has raised $16 million in a series A round of funding. The raise comes after “six months of hyper-growth” that ...

Historically, many of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) major IT acquisition programs have taken longer than expected to develop or failed to deliver the desired value. In April 2016, to ...

AI ushered in a new era in software development last year, driving significant gains in productivity, code quality, and innovation. As technology leaders navigate this new landscape, many are still ...

Agile methodologies constitute a family of approaches that prioritise iterative development, cross-functional collaboration and adaptive planning to deliver software in small, incremental increments.

Talented software developers bristle at the idea of being closely managed. Here are seven ways to align development teams and business objectives without making developers miserable. I’ve been asked ...

Around two years ago, with the help of the polling firm Survation, I studied developer burnout and found that 83% of developers reported suffering from burnout. Over the past few months, I’ve studied ...