The Path to Engineering Maturity 🗺️

A deep industry report to figure out what practices allow teams to perform best

Hi everyone! In October we launched a wide survey to understand how engineering teams work and how they use data to improve.

Since then, we have collected ~350 answers from engineers and managers, and spent two months working through them to gather insights.

Today we are finally presenting our findings. It’s a long, deep work, to kick off the new year and hopefully inspire some new resolutions! ✨

Here is the agenda:

• 🔍 Scope — topics, audience size, and goals of this work.

• 📖 Methodology — how we worked through quantitative and qualitative data.

• 🏆 What is a successful engineering team? — working backwards from people’s answers.

• 🔧 Successful Practices — teams that do these things consistently do better than others.

• 📊 The Role of Metrics — how teams use data to improve.

• 🔺 The Pyramid of Engineering Maturity — weaving our findings into a simple top-down framework.

Let’s dive in!

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