Building DevX Teams, my story
summary
Started with 3 engineers and grows to 12 on the DevX team, owning ~76 services and ~100 GitHub repositories while handling ~2–3 deploys per day and ~4,000 support-channel messages a year. Ships quick wins (a one-week dashboard, a three-day CI pop-up) and larger items: an ETL for org-level GitHub data and a migration tool that moves ~4,000 repos to GitHub Actions. Adopts shape up cycles (six-week bets + two-week cooldowns), prioritizes community contributions, continuous feedback, and data-driven decisions.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Defining developer experience
- 3:51Team structure and mission
- 7:28Practical tools and impact
- 12:38Data-driven engineering
- 14:32Building the team
- 16:10Iterative development
- 17:35Ways of working
- 22:10Fostering community
- 25:07Marketing and data insights
- 28:57Key lessons and takeaways
- 33:02Q&A and closing thoughts
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