Engineers continue to take on more responsibilities, more cognitive load, more left-shifted responsibilities, yet are still expected to ship quickly and predictably. Productivity metrics are being used more and more (hopefully for “good”) to identify bottlenecks to remove any barriers to efficiency. “EngProd” or “DevProd” -focused teams are becoming more prevalent to zero in on enabling engineers to work more efficiently and effectively. What other approaches, tools, philosophies, learnings, etc can we adopt to improve our engineering productivity?
