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Ed#3 | 👨🏻‍💼 Managing your developer, 📉 Keeping Tech Debt Low, ⚡️ Finally way to deliver products on time

The essentials of building of a strong engineering team and foundational products

Author

Aman Sharma
November 18, 2023

What’s more important than building the product better?
It’s having the right foundations. In my opinion the most important job of a technical leader is to keep the core of tech foundation rock solid. The rest will take care of itself. Often we are so busy in building the product fast that we don’t care about the Tech Debt until its too big that it starts to slow down. I don’t think its a separate Job whereas something that you can manage simultaneously while building products. I often use the HillClimb racing analogy to describe the situation.

Let’s see how many of you can figure it all?

The core to these things are -

  1. Developer productivity

  2. Technical Debt

  3. Effective DevOps

📚 Recommended Content

Following is a very provoking article that will for sure leave you with a lot of ideas or questions.

Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey

The consulting firm came up with a methodology they claim can measure software developer productivity. But that measurement comes at a high price – and we offer a more sensible approach.

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity

🛠️ Software for Developer productivity & tech debt

Managing Technical Debt and Developer productivity starts with measuring them first. Luckily its not that hard as you would expect. There are few tools that do a good job of analysing repository and helping you figure out.

For Technical Debt 👇🏻

Quality

Automated code review for test coverage, maintainability, and more so you can save time and merge with confidence.

codeclimate.com/quality

For Developer Productivity 👇🏻

Swarmia: How the best software teams get better

Swarmia helps modern software organizations increase visibility, eliminate bottlenecks, and ship faster. Get started with a live demo or a free 14-day trial.

www.swarmia.com

🛠️ Opinionated tool that delivers on time

I have used a lot of different systems and techniques to improve developer productivity and increase throughput. This ranged from Agile, Kanaban, SCRUM, waterfall and what not. Finally I found a system that I think does really well in things faster.

Linear is now my the ultimate way to develop products. Its development methodology tied with a software integrated with Github that delivers results. For us that was upto 4 times faster. I can finally promise a release date. 😅

Checkout this beautifully written Linear method to learn it all over the weekend.

Linear Method - Practices for Building

At Linear we believe software can feel magical. Quality of software is driven by both the talent of its creators and how they feel while they’re crafting it. To bring back the right focus, these are the foundational and evolving ideas Linear is built on.

linear.app/method

Thanks for Reading this edition.

Aman Sharma

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