Nick Hodges articles - 21 total
Who Owns Developer Productivity?
Developer Productivity has always been a hot topic. For a long time, it was hard to define because...
The Changing Value of Development Speed
An Interesting Poll I recently asked this question on LinkedIn: The reason that I asked...
Reduce Debugging Time With Rollbar
Development time is precious. Developers are highly-skilled and highly-paid, and so naturally you...
Cycle Time Breakdown: Tactics for Reducing Coding Time
The Issue: My Coding Time Feels Too High Cycle Time is the Dev Manager’s Super Metric....
Cycle Time Breakdown: Reducing PR Review Time
The Issue As a manager of a software development team, you are always under pressure to...
Cycle Time Breakdown: Reducing Pull Request Pickup Time
The Issue There’s nothing worse than working hard for a day or two on a difficult piece of...
Customize Your Engineering Metrics Dashboards in LinearB
Introducing Custom Engineering Metrics Dashboards 🚀 I’ve been a Software Development...
WorkerB Developer Automation From LinearB
“The most powerful tool we have as developers is automation.” —Scott Hanselman Developers automate...
Find Unplanned Work And Match Developer Effort To The Right Project With LinearB Matchmaker
Even the best developers sometimes find themselves investing time into unplanned work that is not...
Brain Time vs. Butt Time: Improve Developer Productivity
Many moons ago, I tweeted the following about how to improve developer productivity: ...
Engineering Metrics: 3 Levels of Visibility
Introduction LinearB has all sorts of engineering metrics for your software development...
Those “Pesky” Pull Requests are Totally Worth It
Pretty much everyone does code reviews. They’ve been around a long time. I remember back in my...
How To Use DORA Engineering Metrics To Improve Your Dev Team
Objective data to measure software development is here, and it’s here to stay. For a long time, the...
9 Things I’ve Learned About Software Development Management
Managing the software development process has been likened to herding cats. In other words, you can’t...
Measuring Developers Isn’t Tyranny
Measuring Developers Isn’t Tyranny Informing someone that you want to “measure” them is...
Eight Questions I Had Every Day As A Dev Team Lead
When I was a software developer manager, there were a lot of questions. Questions that my boss asked...
How I Use VSCode
I recently updated and shared my Visual Studio Code settings on How I VSCode. Check them out and...
Developers[] : Programming Wisdom from an Array of Developers
Enhancing the developer community by sharing the wisdom and knowledge of the industry's best and well known developers
Credit Where Credit is Due
Ensure that you give credit to the people that deserve it.
Trailer Hitches and Software Development
What putting in a trailer hitch can tell us about software
Can Developer Productivity be Measured?
Introduction If you go to Google and search for "measuring software developer...