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When global circumstances required our team to go completely remote, we knew things would be tough. Team members wouldn’t just be working from home; they’d be working from home during a time of intense fear and uncertainty, with a myriad of new concerns and distractions. We expected that engineering activity would decline as a result, and we were understanding — as our VP of Engineering, Ale Paredes, explained during a panel on working remotely through the crisis, “We're not trying to behave as if it's business as usual, because it's not business as usual.” 

But when Ale checked the team’s productivity metrics in Velocity, our engineering analytics platform, she was surprised by what she found. After we made the switch to a distributed workflow, many engineers actually started working more. Still, despite logging more time in the codebase, they were getting less done.

To find out why the team wasn’t making progress, Ale dug deeper into the data. Not only did she find answers, she used that information to develop better ways to support the team.

How CodeClimate's VP of Engineering Used Data to Support Our Engineering Team on a Human Level

High-quality code is critical to creating functional error and bug-free software that is easy to edit and understand. Let's look at how to measure code quality.

7 Qualitative Metrics to Measure Code Quality that Every Engineer Needs to Know

Originally published at Managing Technical Debt.

How To Improve Code Quality With Code Reviews and Refactoring

Over the last six months, I’ve learned how the best software engineers and leaders manage technical debt. I've interviewed more than 200 experts, to understand how tech debt is handled at growing software companies.

200+ Software Engineers Taught Me The Best Way To Manage Technical Debt

Continuous Delivery is the ability to ship code quickly, safely, and consistently, and it’s a necessity for teams that wish to remain innovative and competitive. It’s focused on delivering value to the user and starting that feedback loop early — the ideal state of Continuous Delivery is one in which your code is always ready to be deployed. 

Many engineering leaders think of CD as a workflow and focus on the tooling and processes necessary to keep code moving from commit to deploy. 

But CD is more than just a process — it’s a culture. To effectively practice CD, you need to: 

The Importance of a Continuous Delivery Culture

On average, a software development team reworks about 26% of its code prior to release. Even after accounting for necessary changes, those wasted hours can cost a medium-sized business upwards of $4.7M a year. 

Still, when engineering leaders look to cut costs, they often look at departmental spending. Software licenses, discretionary expenses, and even salaries may come under scrutiny.

But not all costs come with such a clear price tag — inefficiencies in the software development process are harder to quantify, but much more expensive. 

According to a 2017 DORA white paper, Forecasting the Value of DevOps Transformations, the cost of Rework in software development is staggering, setting businesses of all sizes back millions of dollars a year.  

Rework Costs Your Company Millions — How to Cut Back?

Processes are essential for effective management. They keep people in sync, making it possible for team members to come together and achieve a shared goal. But they’re also dangerous. Processes can create the illusion that things are running smoothly because they’re moving along according to the shared understanding of how they’re “supposed to” run. 

This is the Fallacy of Process — the idea that by adding consistency and predictability to a shared workflow, a given process is inherently valuable.

Too often, process becomes canon. A team develops an effective way of doing something, then returns to that framework indefinitely, long past its expiration date. 

Managers: Beware the Fallacy of Process

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Top 13 GitHub Alternatives in 2020 [Free and Paid]

One of the many responsibilities of any great engineering leader or manager is that of making decisions. In terms of how to best do that, there are many decision-making models, including the OODA loop model.

The OODA Loop Model: How Great Engineering Managers Identify and Respond to Challenges 

As all Spider-Man comic book fans know, with great power comes great responsibility, and being a great manager isn't just about being good at telling people what to do. It turns out that effective engineering managers aren't mind-bending wizards — they're just good at a few things. Here's a few of them:

3 Things Great Engineering Managers Do

One heavily discussed topic in the context of this current global crisis is running effective virtual meetings. We needed to adapt to remote work quickly. Engineering is different these days. The difference between work and home has become blurry. People have a hard time setting boundaries between work hours and home hours.

How to Use Data to Run More Effective Virtual Meetings

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Code Climate’s flagship product, Velocity, analyzes all the data from your GitHub repos and provides you with heads-up displays, real-time analytics, and custom reports to give you a clearer perspective on how your engineering team is working

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Code Climate's stories on HackerNoon

How CodeClimate's VP of Engineering Used Data to Support Our Engineering Team on a Human Level

7 Qualitative Metrics to Measure Code Quality that Every Engineer Needs to Know

How To Improve Code Quality With Code Reviews and Refactoring

200+ Software Engineers Taught Me The Best Way To Manage Technical Debt

The Importance of a Continuous Delivery Culture

Rework Costs Your Company Millions — How to Cut Back?

Managers: Beware the Fallacy of Process

Top 13 GitHub Alternatives in 2020 [Free and Paid]

The OODA Loop Model: How Great Engineering Managers Identify and Respond to Challenges

3 Things Great Engineering Managers Do

How to Use Data to Run More Effective Virtual Meetings

100+ Tech Companies in Hacker Noon's Business Blogging Program

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EVERGREEN INDEX #9701

Code Climate's stories on HackerNoon

How CodeClimate's VP of Engineering Used Data to Support Our Engineering Team on a Human Level

7 Qualitative Metrics to Measure Code Quality that Every Engineer Needs to Know

How To Improve Code Quality With Code Reviews and Refactoring

200+ Software Engineers Taught Me The Best Way To Manage Technical Debt

The Importance of a Continuous Delivery Culture

Rework Costs Your Company Millions — How to Cut Back?

Managers: Beware the Fallacy of Process

Top 13 GitHub Alternatives in 2020 [Free and Paid]

The OODA Loop Model: How Great Engineering Managers Identify and Respond to Challenges

3 Things Great Engineering Managers Do

How to Use Data to Run More Effective Virtual Meetings

100+ Tech Companies in Hacker Noon's Business Blogging Program

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