Episode 30: Measuring productivity with Laura Tacho

Laura is not only a coach to engineering leaders but also the CTO at DX, a company focused on improving developer productivity. But Laura has been talking about development metrics for a lot longer, and in this episode, we dive deep into the latest research, concrete measures for development teams and their managers, and more!

Guest Biography

Laura Tacho is CTO at DX, a developer experience company. She’s been building developer tools and working on improving developer productivity for over 10 years, all the way from the heyday of IaaS and PaaS on cloud, through Docker and containers, CI/CD, and now as part of DX. She’s also an executive coach for engineering leaders and an expert in building world-class engineering organisations that consistently deliver outstanding results. Laura has coached CTOs and other engineering leaders from startups to the Fortune 500, and also facilitates a popular course on metrics and engineering team performance.

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauratacho/ 

• Twitter: https://x.com/rhein_wein 

• Website: https://lauratacho.com/

Full transcript and show notes: See https://managingmanagers.tech/episodes/episode-030-laura-tacho/