Connecting the Dots: DevEx Surveys for Compass

Understanding how developers feel about their work and value their contributions is often overlooked when measuring developer productivity. At the same time, some studies have shown that a better developer experience leads to increased productivity. At Awesome Graphs, we’ve seen firsthand how gathering developer feedback improves our workflows and productivity. However, as teams grow, manually collecting and analyzing this feedback becomes challenging. That’s why we’re considering bringing to life DevEx Surveys for Compass and would love to hear your thoughts on this solution.

Why Developer Experience Surveys are a great match for Atlassian Compass

Atlassian Compass is a platform that helps engineering teams manage their software processes and reduce context switching. It also provides key metrics to measure software health and team performance, and speed up software delivery. However, metrics alone do not always tell the whole story. For example, an increased number of pull requests might seem like progress, but their quality may decline at the same time, requiring more revisions and testing. Similarly, poor communication between teams might lead to a longer software development life cycle (SDLC) and cause frustration among developers.

With DevEx Surveys for Compass teams could:

• Gather developer feedback to understand the reasons behind trends in metrics.
• Identify process inefficiencies that might not be visible from data alone.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by tracking developer satisfaction along with quantitative metrics.
• Make informed decisions about process changes based on data and real developers’ feedback.

Developer Experience Surveys would integrate seamlessly with Atlassian Compass to add qualitative insights and complement the existing quantitative data.

Thus, by integrating DevEx Surveys into Compass, engineering teams will gain a holistic view of their workflows, eliminate sources of developer friction, and improve software delivery efficiency.

How DevEx Surveys for Compass Will Work

The solution will provide ready-to-use survey templates covering key software development aspects, such as tools and technologies, codebase quality, team collaboration, and project management.

As each team is unique and has its own processes, DevEx Surveys for Compass will offer the option to create custom surveys and save templates for future use. To encourage open and honest responses, developers will be able to answer the surveys and leave comments on each question anonymously. Apart from that, teams could schedule recurring surveys to track progress and measure the impact of changes over time.

The app will collect all the responses, process them, and present them in a dashboard for you to:

• Get a comprehensive view of what drives engineering productivity.
• Discover common challenges and pain points faced by developers.
• Incorporate developer feedback into improvement initiatives.
• Track the impact of improvements over time.

Share Your Thoughts on DX Surveys for Compass

We believe that DevEx Surveys for Compass could be a valuable app for engineering teams, but we need your input to refine our concept. Do you believe that developer experience influences productivity? How do you measure developers’ satisfaction with processes? What challenges do you face when gathering developer feedback?

We’d love to hear your thoughts, and as a thank-you, we’ll share a Developer Experience Survey template prepared by our team to help you start collecting feedback right away. Let us know what you think!