I'm considering writing a literature review or annotated bibliography that surveys major scholarly work around DevEx. I have about a million writing projects I'd like to do, though, so thought I would see if y'all thought this kind of piece would be useful and interesting.
The purpose of the piece as I'm imagining it would be to survey major scholarly work in the DevEx domain in order to educate folks about the empirical, scholarly examination of the concept.
You can hear @CSLee and @grimalkina talk about their latest empirical research study - "Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety" - at Tech Skills Day next Thursday, April 25th 😄
I'm so so so proud of this one, led by the brilliant Dr. Carol Lee, it is a manifestation of so many parts of the vision that she and I have built together to bring better empirical methods to software teams to help real developers.
From setting up an IRB at our company to developing an entire workshop intervention, the elements of this study were a LONG time coming.
And the results are astounding, imo as an intervention scientist. This really works.
Y'all, the Developer Success Lab is thrilled to announce that we’re giving two talks AND facilitating two workshops at LeadDev London this June, 10-12th! https://leaddev.com/leaddev-london/2024agenda
I'm excited to share that ⏰ @11:50 a.m. ET on April 25th, I'm moderating a session with Developer Success Lab research scientists @CSLee and @grimalkina titled "Science-Backed Strategies to Advance Your Tech Career."
In this session, Dr. Hicks and Dr. Lee will share their insights around topics like code review anxiety, learning culture, motivation, etc.
Slide deck for my #monkigras talk 💬 "I Didn't Grow Up Speaking Code": GitHub Copilot as a Programming as a Second Language Tool 💬 is now live and accessible via my website!
Why does that happen? Design and implementation costs evaporate as soon as an API is "finished" and consumers are using it. After that, the only thing that still matters to consumers is that the API behaves as it should. If not, they'll look for ways to fix the challenges they're having, and that's where support comes in.
Unless consumers can get all the information they need from the API documentation. If the API documentation can be the preferred method consumers use to troubleshoot their integrations, then you'll end up spending less on support. There will be less hand-holding required as consumers can fix their issues by themselves." https://apichangelog.substack.com/p/two-ways-to-influence-business-growth
I was reminded the other day of the case study that @CSLee and @grimalkina did on Hackathons in late 2022.
Titled "How Successful Hackathons Increase Belonging, Reduce Anxiety, and Create New Self-Concepts for Future Skill Growth: Research Insights from Hacking the Pluralsight Hackathon", this study looked at the impact of hackathons on 64 employees participating in a corporate hackathon at Pluralsight.
Findings included that:
✅ Hackathons decrease anxiety and increase belonging.
✅ Many people come to hackathons with existing anxieties that can impact their success.
✅ Characteristics of the team can change the likelihood of success.
✅ Hackathons can serve as impactful social interventions.
There are existing rituals and ceremonies in the software space that, when planned and facilitated thoughtfully, can truly do an incredible job of increasing #DeveloperThriving and #DeveloperExperience .
I'm looking for a tool I swear I've seen but cannot find. When running a load of #microservices locally, it caught all the Docker logs and made them nicely searchable, graphable etc without being a stinking great ElkStack. What was it? #devops#developerexperience
If you've built a SaaS that allows your clients to integrate with it via an API, I have one big request:
PLEASE give them a staging environment for testing their integration without having to buy another license (sometimes very expensive). Just include it.
I opened the default just configuration on Universal Blue yesterday, and saw it provided the option of installing Fleek and DevBox. I guess I'm trying them out now…
Working on a “developer experience” project. If you’re a software dev, what do you like or dislike about the “DevEx” at your company? How’s onboarding? Knowledge sharing? Do you have an internal developer portal/platform? #DeveloperExperience#DevEx#DX#SoftwareEngineering
If you're in #Toronto , you want to learn something August 22, and you're a #developer or you lead software teams, my lab is making a totally free public appearance in partnership with TD Bank for a research-and-practice conversation about #DeveloperExperience and how to measure software work in a HEALTHY way.
Dr. Carol Lee, our clinical scientist, will be speaking on her expert areas of wellbeing, anxiety & measurement -- she's extraordinary.