Summary: The latest newsletter discusses the 2024 DX Core 4 benchmarks for measuring developer productivity. It highlights that smaller tech companies perform better than larger ones, and tech firms innovate more while maintaining lower failure rates. The benchmarking data helps organizations identify performance gaps and improve their processes.
Both tech and non-tech companies with engineering organizations under 500 developers outpace their counterparts with over 500 developers. (View Highlight)
Tech companies outperform traditional enterprises in almost everything. Tech companies spend more time on new features, have a better developer experience, and have a faster rate of delivery (View Highlight)
Large traditional enterprises are slower but safer. (View Highlight)
In companies of all sizes, engineers at tech companies spend more time on delivering new customer-facing features than their counterparts in non-tech companies. (View Highlight)
Better developer experience, as measured by DXI, is associated with more time for innovation, a lower Change Failure Rate, and more diffs per engineer. (View Highlight)