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Has the research behind DORA and SPACE been replicated? I'm very suspicious of survey grounded research. p-values in the social sciences are high for a reason.
All these books/frameworks are all the same.
Accelerate: "Copy what successful teams do and your team will suddenly be successful"
The Phoenix Project: "IT department was bad, they made small changes and then eventually they all lived happily ever after"
I posted this comment in response to the previous submission [1] of this same "paper": Also note that the prior work they repeatedly cite (no less than 5 times in as many paragraphs, and indirectly referenced several times in relation to the 20+ "sociotechnical factors"), i.e. reference number (9), is based on "semi-structured interviews with 21 developers". While a lot of the observations and recommendations are cor…
This by the same team who brought you the DORA metrics and the SPACE framework. I suspect it is really a vehicle to sell books and consulting, despite the article largely making sense. Maybe it is atonement of some sort.
Anyone claiming we need to invent our own metrics needs to read Reinertsen.
I posted this comment in response to the previous submission [1] of this same "paper": Also note that the prior work they repeatedly cite (no less than 5 times in as many paragraphs, and indirectly referenced several times in relation to the 20+ "sociotechnical factors"), i.e. reference number (9), is based on "semi-structured interviews with 21 developers". While a lot of the observations and recommendations are cor…
That says very little substantive about their results, though, so I'm curious how you think that matters to the discussion of developer productivity!
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This by the same team who brought you the DORA metrics and the SPACE framework. I suspect it is really a vehicle to sell books and consulting, despite the article largely making sense. Maybe it is atonement of some sort.
Thanks for pointing that out. Although I do think DORA metrics make some sense, it seems like an unnecessary framework considering what the folks in queueing theory have done over the years. Anyone claiming we need to invent our own metrics needs to read Reinertsen.
Though I disagree with Logan about the change failure rate (see https://two-wrongs.com/you-can-reliably-measure-change-failu...), I still think he is spot on in terms of MTTR.
Strongly seconding Reinertsen for anyone interested in this, though. I think this article of yours is particularly insightful and of high quality: https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/08/31/engineering-metrics.html
I posted this comment in response to the previous submission [1] of this same "paper": Also note that the prior work they repeatedly cite (no less than 5 times in as many paragraphs, and indirectly referenced several times in relation to the 20+ "sociotechnical factors"), i.e. reference number (9), is based on "semi-structured interviews with 21 developers". While a lot of the observations and recommendations are cor…
I feel like they are aware that not everything fits into the framework perfectly, but if your organization was trying to improve DevEx, this framework is a place to start.
Welfare states reduce that level, this subsidising businesses (!) but at some point you gotta pay if you want more than the basics. It's not extrinsic motivation - it's much more a hygiene factor to allow intrinsic motivation to come tomplay
lol @ ebay and DevEx. (one of the examples in the article) When I was there (up to 2017) the team that made the internal web framework, Raptor, refused to let anyone see the source code. I mean people that worked at the company, they wouldn't let people sitting 15 feet from them see the source code to the web framework that they used all day to work. Of course you could easily see it in any Java IDE, but they didn't…
> They can't even get the color scheme aligned. Again, if they said 'nobody cares' that's just prioritization, but I know that this has been attempted at least 5 times with teams of a dozen people spending up to a year on it. Not being able to get color scheme misalignment fixed with multiple team-years’ of effort is shocking and appalling.
Has the research behind DORA and SPACE been replicated? I'm very suspicious of survey grounded research. p-values in the social sciences are high for a reason.