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LB Labs: Inside the Top 10% of Engineering Orgs

Fact: You can’t become better at anything unless you understand what getting better would actually look like. This is especially true in the case of engineering teams.

Following the analysis of 2,000 dev teams and over 4 million code branches, the 2023 Engineering Benchmarks report is out.

To walk us through the performance metrics of the top 10% of engineering teams, LinearB’s Head of Developer Relations Ben Lloyd Pearson makes his first Dev Interrupted appearance.

From how long elite teams take to complete code tasks to the size of their pull requests, this is a great episode to understand where your dev team stands and where they have concrete room to improve.

Episode Highlights:

  • (0:00) Accelerate State of DevOps survey
  • (2:15) Introductions
  • (7:38) Research behind the engineering benchmarks
  • (11:23) Delivery lifecycle metrics
  • (14:51) PR automation tooling
  • (18:32) Elite developer workflow metrics
  • (25:40) State of business alignment metrics
  • (34:19) Predictability and planning accuracy

Read the full episode transcript


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