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Building a Culture For Developer Productivity

on YouTube 34m
Talkat Developer Experience Summit 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-05-21· [developer-experience, engineering-leadership]

speakers

name:Jennifer Riggins
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name:Andrew Boyagi
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name:Trevor Stuart
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/-AMunRyArK4
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that productivity means high-quality software at speed and that leaders should measure blockers not output, run small developer focus groups and short surveys, and track whether managers act on results; Atlassian reports a 25% improvement in developer satisfaction after this approach. Recommends milestone-based delivery and carving time for tech debt, uses feature-flagging and experimentation tooling (Split) and Harness engineering insights to surface bottlenecks, and says developer-facing SDK work and iterative releases measurably improve outcomes.

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chapters (12)

  1. 0:00Developer productivity culture
  2. 3:43Defining productivity
  3. 7:11Why output metrics fail
  4. 8:39Leadership role in productivity
  5. 11:25Managers undermining joy
  6. 16:24Actions for culture
  7. 18:29Developer feedback surveys
  8. 22:16Psychological safety in surveys
  9. 25:26Practical survey changes
  10. 27:31Measuring developer experience
  11. 29:37Impact on external customers
  12. 32:25One key step for leaders

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