How do people qualitatively measure their developer experience?

[funny_dude]

Is anyone taking surveys specifically designed for developer teams to help organizations understand and improve their developer experience? What tools do that?

[ericalexander0]

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/analytics/dora_metrics.html

[funny_dude]

That's more around application performance. How do people actually get the perspective of their developers at scale in large engineering organizations

[factorialboy]

No. DORA metrics are not related to application performance.

[2rsf]

But also not directly to developer's experience. Try the SPACE framework [1] from the same people, Nicole Forsgren et al. It is more of a survey than measurable objective metrics, and the problem is with the implementation, like any other survey- build good questions, operating the survey analysis and results etc.

There some comercial tools available, for example getdx [2]

[1] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3454124 [2] https://getdx.com/

[kingkongjaffa]

Is “checking how many items your company ticks on the Joel test a valid answer”

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

Maybe a high score correlates with a good developer experience?

Otherwise it’s just asking a bunch of survey questions about developers feeling of job quality?

[enterexit]

An idea: an arena, where developers "fight" against each other by solving leet code or similar tasks and they are scored and rated using something similar to the ELO rating system in chess.