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A Leader's Guide to Metrics Reviews

Sachin Rekhi

One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. I've come to believe that establishing such a metrics review meeting is critical for developing an effective data-driven culture and I wanted to share some of the best practices around doing so. Why metrics reviews matter.

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When should engineering managers write code?

Intercom, Inc.

Therefore, coding activities may become a distraction from what is really important in your new position. Maintaining respect: When your reports see you’re willing and able to do coding work, it can help cultivate and maintain their respect in you as a manager. When should you write code? Code reviewing pull requests.

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Is your engineering team experiencing alert fatigue? Ask these 8 questions

Intercom, Inc.

We introduced regular alert review sessions for teams dealing with frequent alerts. Each alert review session starts with an ordered list of alerts that fired in the previous period, ordered by frequency of their firing. fire most frequently) are reviewed first. . 8 questions to ask when assessing your team’s alerts.

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How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Roman Pichler

But if the team motivation is declining—as people are being overworked or stressed—or if the code quality is deteriorating—as bugs are accumulating and the code complexity is increasing, alarm bells should go off. Carefully select them by using the factors discussed above, and regularly review and adjust them.

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Research critical vulnerabilities with the Leo CVE Dashboard

Roy Madden

The Leo CVE Dashboard gives you at-a-glance visibility into relevant trending vulnerabilities, and you can use Leo to focus any of your feeds for faster insight into risks impacting your business’s software, hardware, and application stack. The Leo CVE Dashboard: a complete CVE overview in a glimpse.

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Continuous Improvement: How It’s Important for Software Developers

The Product Coalition

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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12 Best NPS Software and Survey Tools to Consider

Userpilot

Think of Net Promoter Score (NPS) software as a tool to measure your customers’ feelings about your product, and categorize them based on their level of loyalty (promoters, neutrals, and detractors). Plus, the ability to create custom NPS dashboards allow you to analyze the results easily without writing a line of code.