Tips and Traps to Measuring Productivity in Engineering Orgs by Maria Latushkin, Andrew Lau, Annie Zhou
What does measuring productivity mean and what does it enable? While many engineers love making data-driven decisions, it’s easy to fall into the trap of over-indexing to a few numbers that only tell a small part of the whole story.
In this session, we’ll explore several different ways engineering teams can effectively measure productivity and some common traps to avoid. We will discuss best practices for illustrating and sharing what we measured to motivate and evaluate the internal team as well as keep upper management and stakeholders informed. Finally, our speakers will share their personal experience on productivity insights during these peculiar pandemic times.
Maria Latushkin
Maria Latushkin is responsible for leading the Omadahealth’s technology vision and team. Prior to joining Omadahealth and moving to healthcare space, Maria has spent over 15 years in eCommerce, retail and enterprise SaaS companies ranging from series B startups to large companies, such as Walmart.
Andrew Lau
Andrew Lau is a Co-Founder and CEO of Jellyfish, where he helps leaders use data to align their engineering teams with business strategy. He was trained as an engineer and grew to VP of Engineering at Oracle acquired company, Endeca. He is also a multi-time entrepreneur and co-founder. At every company, Andrew saw the challenges of leading engineering teams at scale. He co-founded Jellyfish to give engineering executives the tools they need to be great leaders. Andrew holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Originally from Oakland, CA, he's a devoted fan of the Oakland A's, despite residing in Red Sox territory for more than two decades. Andrew currently calls Cambridge, MA his home, where he lives with his wife Elsie and their two adorable young children, Callie and Mira.
Annie Zhou
Annie is a product and engineering leader at Square. She currently supports the business platform engineering group at Square. Annie’s motivation for management comes from her people-focused passion where she loves working with teams to leverage their strengths and stretch their potentials. She enjoys thinking about problems such as building cohesive teams, scaling organizations, and cultivating a collaborative and output-oriented culture. Prior to Square, she’s worked at a number of startups across a spectrum of industries from consumer products to enterprise solutions, as well as a wide variety of teams from sales to engineering.
