Measuring Developer Productivity With the SPACE Framework
SE Research brings together engineering leaders and researchers to discuss the latest thinking on managing effective engineering teams.
On April 28th we’ll be joined by Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey to discuss “The SPACE of Developer Productivity” and understand how engineering leaders can apply ideas shared in the paper.
We’ll welcome questions from the audience throughout the discussion.
About the paper:
The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s More to It Than You Think.
Authors: Nicole Forsgren, Margaret-Anne Storey, Chandra Madilla, Thomas Zimmerman, Brian Houck, and Jenna Butler
Abstract:
Developer productivity is about more than an individual's activity levels or the efficiency of the engineering systems relied on to ship software, and it cannot be measured by a single metric or dimension. The SPACE framework captures different dimensions of productivity, and here we demonstrate how this framework can be used to understand productivity in practice and why using it will help teams better understand developer productivity and create better measures to inform their work and teams.
