Engineers continue to take on more responsibilities, more cognitive load, more left-shifted responsibilities, yet are still expected to ship quickly and predictably. Productivity metrics are being used more and more (hopefully for “good”) to identify bottlenecks to remove any barriers to efficiency. “EngProd” or “DevProd” -focused teams are becoming more prevalent to zero in on enabling engineers to work more efficiently and effectively. What other approaches, tools, philosophies, learnings, etc can we adopt to improve our engineering productivity?
Engineering Productivity
Track Host
Jennifer Bevan
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Google, Previously at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jennifer Bevan has spent the past 17 years at Google, developing testing infrastructure and tools to improve products and the end-user experience. A graduate of both UC Berkeley (B.S., EE/CS) and UC Santa Cruz (Ph.D, Software Evolution & Maintenance), and 7 years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jennifer turned an interest in how software systems can maintain adaptability over time into a career in Engineering Productivity. She has worked within developer tools, product testing, and platform testing, with a more recent focus on privacy and regulatory compliance.