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AI Didn’t Reduce Engineering Work — It Moved the Bottlenecks
AI Didn’t Reduce Engineering Work — It Moved the Bottlenecks

How to Turn Faster Coding into Faster Shipping: Delegation, Verification, DevEx Data

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March 13, 2026
Code Review: DevEx Survey Questions to Help Teams Move Changes Forward
Code Review: DevEx Survey Questions to Help Teams Move Changes Forward

Here are 15 deep dive questions you can ask your developers to uncover the causes of friction in code review, along with guidance on how to interpret the results, common patterns engineering teams encounter, and practical first steps for improvement. This will help you pinpoint what’s causing the problem and fix it on your own, or move faster with our DevEx AI tool and expert guidance.

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March 11, 2026
Live Debugging: DevEx Survey Questions to Help Teams Debug Production Faster
Live Debugging: DevEx Survey Questions to Help Teams Debug Production Faster

Use DevEx survey questions to uncover friction in live debugging. Learn how engineering teams diagnose production issues faster and reduce incident response time.

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March 6, 2026
The 70% → 80% Shift in AI Coding: Why VPs of Engineering Need to Manage Comprehension Debt
The 70% → 80% Shift in AI Coding: Why VPs of Engineering Need to Manage Comprehension Debt

Last year, the dominant story was the “70% problem”: AI helps you get surprisingly far, surprisingly fast—but the final stretch toward production readiness becomes a grind of edge cases, debugging, and diminishing returns.

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March 3, 2026
When AI Makes Coding Fast, Delivery Gets Slow
When AI Makes Coding Fast, Delivery Gets Slow

How VPEs Break the “AI Paradox” with Orchestration and DevEx Signals

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February 25, 2026
Specification Clarity: DevEx Survey Questions to Unblock Teams Stuck Between Ideas and Code
Specification Clarity: DevEx Survey Questions to Unblock Teams Stuck Between Ideas and Code

Learn how DevEx survey questions uncover specification clarity issues, reduce rework, and improve delivery using real developer feedback and DORA insights.

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February 23, 2026
Leverage user feedback to build a culture of ownership and action
Leverage user feedback to build a culture of ownership and action

Hosted by Anita Zbieg, PhD, this session will feature industry experts Simon Boudrias (Director of Engineering at Datadog) and Jon Kern (Software Engineer, Agile Manifesto Co-author at Adaptavist). Together, they will share insights on cultivating a developer culture that is not just productive but customer-centred.

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April 28, 2025
Code Review Metrics – The Miro Way
Code Review Metrics – The Miro Way

How to Spot the Good and Avoid the Bad in Code Review Signals?

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March 13, 2025
Have fun together with social chat channels
Have fun together with social chat channels

Thematic public Slack channels are for fun and bring people together around common interests, hobbies, and lifestyles.

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February 19, 2025
Schedule shorter meetings (25 & 50 min) in your calendar
Schedule shorter meetings (25 & 50 min) in your calendar

This feature helps reduce meeting fatigue and stress by providing attendees with some much-needed downtime between meetings.

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February 10, 2025
Communicate primarily in tools where the work is done (e.g. Jira, docs, code repository)
Communicate primarily in tools where the work is done (e.g. Jira, docs, code repository)

If you want to communicate, choose primary communication channels the tools where the work is done. This way you’ll improve productivity and reduce communication time

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February 3, 2025
Focus and Collaborate – The Pipedrive Way
Focus and Collaborate – The Pipedrive Way

How to balance time for focused work and meetings in dev teams at scale?

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January 31, 2025
Enable Appointment booking form, so people can book a meeting automatically
Enable Appointment booking form, so people can book a meeting automatically

Booking page is especially handy for meetings organised with people from outside the company.

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January 30, 2025
Convert private chat channels into public
Convert private chat channels into public

Use public chat channels instead of private, if the subjest is not confidential, or private.

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January 14, 2025
How to elevate CI/CD efficiency & experience: Surveys, Metrics, Insights
How to elevate CI/CD efficiency & experience: Surveys, Metrics, Insights

Let’s take a holistic view of the CI/CD pipeline. It is a delivery mechanism, but its role goes beyond just building code—it also builds developers' daily experiences.

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December 23, 2024
Delivering “User Magic” - from Experiences to Metrics & Goals
Delivering “User Magic” - from Experiences to Metrics & Goals

Focus on what truly matters: the users’ actual experiences and the value they gain while using your product—even down to endorphin levels. This includes those that drive reward and motivation, like clicking a link and expecting it to load instantly, as well as those that sustain long-term satisfaction. These are the experiences your software can strive to deliver and optimize for.

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December 20, 2024