HOW HEALTHY ENGINEERING TEAMS INVEST THEIR TIME

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Successful engineering-led growth can only happen if the engineering teams can focus on building and the teams are doing work that aligns with company goals. There are many existing metrics and playbooks to measure a team’s efficiency, but team and company alignment tend to be more subjective and hard to measure. This blog introduces 4 business metrics that attempt to measure this alignment by showing how teams allocate time across initiatives. The 2,000 engineering teams studied tended to spend 55% of their time on New Value initiatives, 20% on Feature Enhancements, 15% on Developer Experience, and 10% on maintenance tasks.