How to prevent developer burnout
Summary
Earlier this year, I led a joint research project between engineering productivity business Haystack Analytics and polling firm Survation, to understand the impact of burnout on developers. Companies which succeeded during the pandemic were those that embraced technology and focussed on delivering what their customers wanted, despite trial and error being part of that feedback loop. Indeed, the leadership team may have already given up, continuing to cash executive pay cheques while talented staff leave and the clock counts down to the shutters descending on their business. In its State of DevOps report, Google’s Dora team has found that one trait is particularly important in driving delivery performance: improving software reliability and preventing burnout. Indeed, I found substantial evidence for the benefits of psychological safety in a report I recently wrote, EngProd 2021: A review on the state of developer productivity.
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