How we do developer productivity at Slack
summary
Quarterly anonymous developer surveys across thousands of engineers plus automated weekly metrics in Slack surface pain points like CI failure rates and deploy time, leading to a big bet: rework the iOS build system with Basil, a new CLI and 18 months of dual Xcode support. Time from PR opened to mergeable drops from >60 minutes to under 7 minutes. Ongoing experiments target remote dev environments, AI tooling, and continuous measurement of time to mergeable and deploy size.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:25Poll
- 1:50Top 3 spend
- 4:35Measuring
- 8:55Metrics
- 11:05Developer Experience
- 13:00Big Bets
- 15:00Case Study iOS
- 27:15Book recommendation
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