IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY AND HAPPINESS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

LinkedIn’s Developer Productivity & Happiness Framework (DPH) is a collection of documents that describe the systems, processes, metrics, and feedback systems used to understand developers and their needs internally at LinkedIn. The framework starts off by attempting to answer the question, “How do I choose what to measure?”. Next, LinkedIn creates Developer Personas, which categorizes developers into different groups based on their workflows. The company thinks about priorities separately for each of those groups, with different data and metrics collected for each. This data is used to improve developer and team productivity and happiness.