How Focusing on Better Developer Experience (DevEx) Frees Developers to Do What Matters Most

Consider weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly recurring meetings.

At first, it may feel strange to switch from reporting (comfort zone) to more open questions (unknown zone), but give it a try for a week, it’s worth it!

Individual attention from the leader is important for productivity, engagement, and well-being.

Managing distractions is key to maintaining focus and productivity when you're in flow mode.

Whether you’re in sales, development, or production, creating custom sections in Slack can make your day-to-day more efficient.

In remote-first work, interactions with other teams do not happen by incident.

Switch to async status updates to save time in meetings and improve them. When check-ins are a reporting moment, everyone just tries to look busy. Async updates also give more time for fixing problems, bonding, and planning.

Here are some topics you might consider including in a 1-on-1 agenda.

Even a short description on your profile (position, team, what you do) plus a photo will make it much easier to know you.

Only one in five professional developers are happy with their current job. Stack Overflow asked over 65,000 developers whether they were satisfied with their current role. Only 20% chose the option "happy at work".

Maximize your team's efficiency by incorporating meeting recordings into your routine.

Schedule “Do not disturb” status on Slack to automatically pause Slack notifications for your deep work slots.

Configure your general Slack notification preferences and review notifications triggers for your channels.

Creating Team meetings calendar is handy in terms of: managing the Team meetings by everyone from the team, onboarding new people, and sharing Team calendar with other teams, so they can join whenever they want to

Traditionally, tech companies have measured developer productivity by tracking the flow of work through the delivery process—from writing code to getting it reviewed, merged, and released into production. However, a new approach is gaining traction: measuring Developer Experience (DevEx).