Developer Joy: Maintaining “Flow” and Sustained Productivity
Summary
Developer productivity is a matter of business efficiency. But fixating on metrics like cycle time and speed to ship reduces software development to a chore – especially at a time when developers are expected to do a lot more than code. As leaders, we must ask ourselves: are my developers actually experiencing the joy of creation that brought them here in the first place?
Atlassian believes fostering developer joy is the secret to reconnecting them with the love of the craft by removing friction and empowering teams. After all, happy developers aren't simply more efficient – but the passion they pour into their work results in better software. Atlassian’s Head of Engineering, Preeti Kota, will share the key ingredients (and challenges) to creating a culture of developer joy in any organization, including how leaders can achieve executive buy-in and elevate it as a company-wide goal.
Speakers
Preeti Kota is the Head of Engineering for Atlassian's developer experience platform, Compass. She has spent over 20 years in the engineering craft with experience in building products from scratch, developing large-scale enterprise applications, and leading global engineering teams. She is a firm believer that people are at the center of everything we do and is excited to be building Atlassian’s Developer Experience Platform based on the practices and ways of working at Atlassian Engineering. Outside of work, Preeti is exploring karate with her daughter and enjoys playing board games with her family.
Dan Kador currently runs the engineering teams at Clockwise. Clockwise optimizes your team’s calendars to create more time in everyone’s day.
Before that, Dan helped run engineering @ Handshake to fundamentally change college recruiting and get more economic opportunities to all students.
Before /that/, he helped the crew @ Lyft make things ever more real-time for passengers and drivers.
And before /that/ he built the technology and team at Keen IO.
And in ancient history, Dan was a software engineer @ salesforce focused on useful, performant, and scalable APIs.
