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Brad Meiseles, Director of Engineering at VMware led a discussion with MassTLC members on maximizing engineering productivity.
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© 2009 VMware Inc. All rights reserved
Confidential
Maximizing Developer ProductivityMassTLC Round Table
February 9, 2012
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Agenda
Factors that impact productivity
Measuring productivity
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“Begin with the end in mind.”
- Steven Covey Habit 2 from “The 7 habits of highly effective people”)
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"The major problems of our work are not so much technological as
sociological in nature."
- Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
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“to build a successful organization and team you must get the right people on
the bus.”
- Jim Collins Good to Great
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"Developers prefer to use agile methods. Managers prefer to use heavy
methods."
- Anonymous Comment in IT Survey
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Measuring Productivity
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“Micromanagement is evil. Measuring lines of code is useless, because less
truly is more.”
- Mikael Jansson From an Answer on Stack Overflow
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“Developer productivity is really a qualitative assessment, not a quantitative
measurement.”
- Me
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"I'm a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves"
- Mike Myers “Coffee Talk with Linda Richman,” SNL
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Topic 1. Goals
What are we building and why does it matter?
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Topic 2. Work Environment
Does the work environment help or hinder productivity?
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Topic 3. People and Teams
Do we have the right people? How are we organized into teams?
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Topic 4. Processes and Tools
Is our methodology working? Do the tools we use help or hinder productivity?
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Topic 5. Measuring Productivity?
What do we measure? How do we interpret the data we gather?
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Thank you!