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Build: A New Book For Engineering Leaders tl;dr: Our new book, Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization, is a blueprint for continuous improvement. It zeroes in on three key ingredients: a relentless focus on business outcomes, actionable insights to boost the productivity of your software teams, and a thoughtful approach to improving the experience of building software at your company. Read it online for free.

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Sensible Benchmarks For Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Your Engineering Organization tl;dr: A lot of engineering leaders are looking for benchmarks to understand what “good” looks like. The problem is, most benchmarks out there offer a long list of metrics and encourage spending time on areas that are already going well. In this blog post, you’ll learn how we landed on the five fundamental metrics in our benchmarks and how you should use them to drive meaningful change in your engineering organization.

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Beyond Spreadsheets: Driving Developer Productivity Improvements Using Goals, Signals, And Metrics tl;dr: So many developer productivity journeys start with a spreadsheet. But since such approaches rarely end well, we wrote this article to help you replace metrics-driven opportunity discovery with the goals, signals, and metrics framework.

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