Measuring Development Team Performance

9.1

(48 ratings)

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2 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Apply the SPACE framework of developer productivity to your teams to improve developer experience and increase team performance.

Hosted by

Laura Tacho, VP of Engineering and Software Engineering Leadership Coach

Leaders from Apple, GitHub & Pfizer trust Laura to level up their leadership.

Course overview

Maximize the effectiveness of your development teams

Don't measure the wrong things.

Get expert guidance and live coaching to pick the right quantitative and qualitative metrics that will empower your team to achieve better results, using research-backed methods.

This course is for leaders who:

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Seek to deeply understand your team's performance, engagement, and well-being through data

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Are asked to report on team performance and productivity to your leadership team

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Want to increase developer satisfaction and improve developer experience

In this course:

Put DORA and SPACE into action

Go beyond buzzwords and understand how frameworks like DORA and SPACE can help guide your team to higher performance.

Build a metrics dashboard

Whether you're starting from scratch or already using a tool, get guidance and coaching from me to understand the most important metrics for your team.

Improve developer experience and reduce friction

Empower your team with actionable data so they can take ownership and accountability for team outcomes.

Get 1-1 support from Laura

Share work in the async course community and get personalised coaching and feedback from Laura.

Course schedule

  • 16:00 GMT

    Live workshops on

    • Tuesday, January 31, 16:00-17:00 GMT
    • Thursday, February 2, 16:00-17:00 GMT
    • Tuesday, February 7, 16:00-17:00 GMT
    • Thursday, February 9, 16:00-17:00 GMT



    Async course community and access to materials throughout the course, and indefinitely after the course ends.

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        I left Laura's course with an understanding of what metrics I should be tracking for engineering health.
Nicole Misek

Nicole Misek

VP of Decision Engineering, Nextmv
        The interactive course design makes it easy for the knowledge to stick. You'll also learn from and make friends with other like-minded engineering leaders.
Yan Fu

Yan Fu

VP of Engineering, Kind
        Working with Laura has allowed my team to surface problems sooner and move past them together.
Tim Suchanek

Tim Suchanek

CTO and Co-founder, Stellate
        This course provides the perfect balance of theory and practical application. I would definitely recommend this course.
Sharon Taylor

Sharon Taylor

Director of Platform DevOps Program Management, Pfizer
        Measuring team performance is more than metrics from Jira, GitHub, PagerDuty, etc. You will leave this course with valuable and actionable new information and tools in addition to a new network of like-minded development leaders.
Dan Wyks

Dan Wyks

Director of Engineering, DHI Group
        Understanding the balance of the most important metrics for each business objective is a complex task, without a doubt Laura's feedback throughout the course allowed me to put into practice how to take the performance of the teams to another level.
Lorgio Trinidad

Lorgio Trinidad

CTO, Papinotas
        The workshop gave me a space to explore how I operate and communicate with my teams. It also gave me valuable insight from other leaders in software.
Peter Halverson

Peter Halverson

VP of Software Development, LUMEA
        You can learn about SPACE and DORA on your own, but being in a cohort with fellow managers and having a master instructor like Laura will really set your compass pointing in the right direction.
Amr Draz

Amr Draz

Director of Engineering, Thndr

Meet your instructor

Laura Tacho, VP of Engineering and Software Engineering Leadership Coach

Laura Tacho, VP of Engineering and Software Engineering Leadership Coach

Laura Tacho has led engineering and product development teams at companies like CloudBees, Aula Education, and Nova Credit.

She’s on a mission to equip engineering leaders with the confidence and skills they need to build high-performing software teams. Her teams consistently ship high-quality code sprint after sprint and outperform their competition.

Course syllabus

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Defining productivity

Define and measure your high expectations using well-researched frameworks.

  • Vision of high performance
  • SPACE framework
  • DORA metrics

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Build your dashboard

Apply DORA and SPACE to your own teams. With the help of a metrics library and ready-to-use templates, build a team performance dashboard that aligns to your vision of high performance and your company's objectives.

  • Team Performance Dashboard

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Collecting data

Learn about the metrics and productivity tools on the market right now, make a plan for collecting data for the metrics your pick, and compare different ways of benchmarking your metrics.

  • Tooling overview
  • Collecting data
  • Benchmarking
  • Live coaching
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Active, not passive

This course focuses on live workshops and hands-on projects. No reading from slides while you fall asleep at your desk.

Meet other engineering leaders

You’ll be learning in public through breakout rooms and an engaged community

Learn with a cohort of peers

Surround yourself with like-minded people who want to grow alongside you

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