mkanat

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by mkanat 2y ago
Hello! I have done this sort of research internally at companies and have coordinated with the world’s leading researchers in developer productivity for a long time. Myself and every other leading researcher in the field that I have spoken
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by mkanat 10y ago
I dunnow. I don't think that finding out what people's problem is and solving it in a way that is real to them is specifically or exclusively the domain of PM or UX.
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by mkanat 10y ago
Maybe. I've interacted with a lot of companies on this subject and I've found that not to be the case, though. There's usually more that an individual engineer can do about the system than sometimes they believe. It's no
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by mkanat 10y ago
Sort of, yeah. See https://testing.googleblog.com/2017/04/code-health-googles-i... as one of the examples of a type of Engineering Productivity work that I do at Google (although as you have basically pointed out,
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by mkanat 10y ago
Sort of. The Toolsmith, Tester, and Language Lawyer would all have some aspect of Engineering Productivity in their role. But it's more than just that. See also, for example: https://testing.googleblog.com/2017/04&
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by mkanat 10y ago
On the mobile theme, I'd suggest filing your complaint with wordpress.org. This is the standard Wordpress mobile theme, so it's the mobile format used by a significant percentage of all the websites on the Internet. On the line wi
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by mkanat 10y ago
I think you have misunderstood what an engineering productivity worker is. It's anybody who works on tools, frameworks, systems, processes, practices, etc. that help make developers lives better.
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by mkanat 10y ago
Yes, but the post is about a group of people or an individual who works in a particular field, not the subject of productivity itself. So I defined the phrase as used in the post. I do have another post about measuring productivity: http:&
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by mkanat 10y ago
In the context of this blog post, it's a group of people (or individuals) who work to improve the developer experience, usually including testing, code quality work, and practices. It sometimes also includes tooling, release work, fram