The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s more to it than you think
- Nicole Forsgren ,
- Margaret-Anne Storey ,
- Chandra Maddila ,
- Tom Zimmermann ,
- Brian Houck ,
- Jenna Butler
ACM Queue | , Vol 19(1): pp. 20-48
Developer productivity is about more than an individual’s activity levels or the efficiency of the engineering systems relied on to ship software, and it cannot be measured by a single metric or dimension. The SPACE framework captures different dimensions of productivity, and here we demonstrate how this framework can be used to understand productivity in practice and why using it will help teams better understand developer productivity and create better measures to inform their work and teams.
Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2022: Hybrid workspaces
The New Future of Work Report summarizes important research and developments that can help us understand and improve the future of work. This report is organized by changes in work practices at four different “scales”: individuals, teams, organizations, and society. Throughout, researchers at Microsoft are using methods such as the latest advances in AI, causal inference, surveys and interviews, and prototype-building to uncover challenges and opportunities facing workers. But this report does not only feature research done at Microsoft: there is amazing research shaping the future of work done by researchers around the world. The report includes this work as well and forecasts from some of these experts. About this video: By one rule of thumb, workspace expenses equal 10% of wage costs, which means…