What happens when you get two people who are passionate about productivity and fun, and put them on stage together?
Abstract
What is the happy path, for developers? It’s less boredom, and more play.
Developer satisfaction, developer joy, and business results are strongly correlated. And yet - many of our jobs are frustrating, filled with friction, and free of joy. What’s going on? How do we fix that? Is annoying waste inevitable? Can developer performance be tuned? Are productivity measurements helping or hurting us? How do we deal with fear at work? Will AI take our jobs? Finally, how can you persuade management to invest in boredom?
Holly is an expert on play at work, unwise automations, and polar bears. Trisha is an expert on performance tuning, tooling and productivity. Come to this talk to find out what these topics have in common.
Video
Slides
Resources
Articles and videos
- Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans - Article on Martin Fowler's website
- No Human Programmers article
- New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality'
- Space Framework
- Dave Farley response to McKinsey report
- Dan North response to McKinsey Report
- LinkedIn Productivity
- Default Mode Network
- Developer Thriving: four sociocognitive factors that create resilient productivity on software teams
- Moon Girl Devil Dinosaur episode 9
- Will AI Replace Junior Software Developers? (video)
Books
(Contains affiliate links)
Products
- JetBrains' AI Assistant
- Quarkus
- Develocity
- DPE University: Introduction to Develocity (free training)
- Copilot
