Answering your biggest engineering leadership questions
Give your search engine a rest. We’ve got answers to some of your most significant engineering leadership questions right here. The gist? Your business can’t skate by on assumptions alone. You need data. In the answers to these common questions, you’ll find out why data on your engineering teams and your process is crucial, and how you can get your hands on that data right now.
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How can our engineering team improve our DORA metrics?
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How do I keep my remote team connected and collaborating?
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How can we set our first-time leaders up for success?
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How can we speed up software delivery?
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How can we create better collaboration opportunities across teams?
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How can we improve our overall team health and retain our talent?
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How can we better measure our developer productivity?
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How do we enable our DevOps teams to achieve continuous delivery?
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How can our organization make our stand-ups and retros more productive?
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How can we improve our sprint production and ensure our efforts contribute to our objectives?
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To all these questions, Pluralsight Flow is the answer.
Take a tour of Flow and see for yourself how the software delivery intelligence platform can upgrade your processes and unlock your people’s potential.
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Everyone’s talking about DORA metrics. But what are they, and can they really help my team improve our processes?
55%
31%
of engineers experiencing burnout attributed “inefficient process” as a cause.
of engineers reported that they were frequently delayed in delivering work due to inefficient processes to a “great” or “moderate” extent.
Find out how to leverage DORA metrics to cool off burnout and build more efficient processes in our blog post Understanding DORA metrics and how Pluralsight Flow helps.
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Our team is entirely remote and has literally never met. How can I make it so we can all work together cohesively?
77% of employees feel more productive while working remotely
85% of managers think remote work is here to stay
Learn how you can build a productive and positive work-from-home culture with our blog post, Managing a remote team: The Flow solution.
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Remote Work
* 2022 Pluralsight Tech Forecast
The Great Resignation led to us having a bunch of new first-time team leads, and it’s been ridiculously hard to get them onboarded and upskilled quickly. Any advice on helping them succeed from the jump?
64% of managers don't think their employees are able to keep pace with future skill needs,and 70% of employees say they haven't even mastered the skills they need for their jobs today
Find out how PlanSource leveraged Pluralsight Flow to decrease ramp time and prepare new leaders for success.
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Data-driven engineering insights not only help new leaders onboard faster, but also enable them to lead their teams toward better outcomes. Find out how PlanSource leveraged Pluralsight Flow to decrease ramp time and prepare new leaders for success.
* Gartner
"Flow makes leadership much more attainable."
Our executive team keeps demanding we speed up our software delivery process. Is there some magic solution to make that happen somewhere?
Software delivery insights from Pluralsight Flow enabled customers to
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12% increase in coding days
28% increase in code commits per day
reduce cycle time by 35%.
Learn how KAR Global made magic happen and sped up their delivery process and increased productivity. Here’s a preview: With better visibility into their teams, KAR Global saw→
Our teams are so incredibly siloed. They never talk to each other. How can we help them actually interact beyond just scheduling even more meetings?
Employees in global projects spend 7 h 45 min per week on average in scheduled meetings and 8 h 54 min in unscheduled meetings.
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Check out this episode of Perspectives in Leadership, Creating a culture of communication, to uncover how to break down silos and build a culture of collaboration for your teams.
*Science Direct
16h 39 m
per week
We keep losing our top talent to other organizations. What can we do to keep our development teams intact and improve our developers’ experience?
An average of more than
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Find out how Manulife used Pluralsight Flow to improve the employee experience by identifying and removing roadblocks to counter burnout, and by spotting (and rewarding!) previously hidden talent.
*SHRM.org
the highest number in history .
3.98 million workers workers quit their jobs each month in 2021,
We need a better way to measure and talk about productivity on our developer teams. Any thoughts?
According to the Deloitte Workplace Burnout Survey
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Use these resources to find ways to measure productivity as more than lines of code written and in a way that drives employee satisfaction and better mental health.
*Deloitte, Workplace Burnout Survey | Burnout without borders
Blog: Pluralsight Flow and the SPACE of developer productivity
Customer story: AppDirect
83%
of respondents say burnout from work can negatively impact their personal relationships
91%
of respondents say having an unmanageable amount of stress or frustration negatively impacts the quality of their work.
The moment we release a new product or feature, our executives are asking us what’s coming up next. We need a faster delivery system…HELP!
Forbes projects there will be
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Find out how CloudHealth leveraged the visibility enabled by Pluralsight Flow to refine their processes and ensure their teams are always on a steady path toward delivery.
If you want to get your piece of that pie, you need to be constantly delivering new products and features.
$369.4 billion in SaaS revenue by 2024.
Look, we all know that our stand-up and retrospective ceremonies are important, but how can we make sure they’re beneficial and not just heated arguments?
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Research shows that the daily stand-up meeting was used by 87% of those who employ agile methods. We found that even though the respondents on average were neutral towards the practice, the majority were either positive or negative. Junior developers were most positive and senior developers and members of large teams most negative
*SpringerLink, Are Daily Stand-up Meetings Valuable? A Survey of Developers in Software Teams
Check out these resources to prepare better stand-ups and retros that not only resolve important business issues, but that also give your team members targeted ways to grow and improve.
Customer story: Allvue
Blog: Help your engineers grow with Pluralsight Flow’s Check-in report
We’re consistent with our output as a team, but it feels like our strategic initiatives aren’t any closer to completion. What gives?
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Finish
To resolve problems within your sprints, you need a way to see those targets better, through objective data. Read this blog post, How to improve your delivery success rate with Pluralsight Flow’s Sprint Movement report, to find out how Pluralsight Flow’s Sprint Movement report to learn how to free up the bottlenecks holding your sprints back.
*Stripe, The Developer Coefcient
on maintaining code and completing non-differentiated work.
Companies waste $300 billion
