Introducing Developer Experience Surveys for Bitbucket

A great developer experience is key to creating top-notch products and improving developer productivity. At Awesome Graphs, we rely on open-ended questionnaires to review our tools and processes and brainstorm solutions during team retrospectives. However, we also recognize that our approach won’t work properly for larger teams as developers’ feedback will become cumbersome and difficult to analyze. That’s why we’re working on integrating Developer Experience Surveys for Bitbucket into Awesome Graphs. We aim to help teams improve their productivity by combining developers’ feedback collected via surveys with qualitative metrics from Awesome Graphs.

Why DevEx Surveys Matter

Engineering metrics tell you what’s happening but don’t always explain why. Numbers might show that more pull requests are being created, but their quality might have dropped, requiring more revisions and improvements. Alternatively, the lack of automated tests could lead to time-consuming manual testing and frustrated QA engineers. Or you might notice a decrease in cycle time while the number of releases stays the same.

Developer Experience Surveys for Bitbucket aim to bridge the gap between quantitative metrics (like cycle time) with qualitative data (feedback from developers) and help teams identify inefficiencies to increase developer productivity and satisfaction with engineering processes.

Overview of Developer Experience Surveys for Bitbucket

Developer Experience Surveys for Bitbucket will offer ready-to-use questions grouped into categories relevant to most engineering teams to assess their experience holistically. These templates will be a quick starting point to collect developers’ feedback on topics like tools and technologies, technical debt and codebase health, collaboration and communication, or project management.

For teams who would like to focus on specific topics, we’ll provide an option to customize surveys by adding needed questions and saving them as a custom template for future use. To encourage detailed feedback and explore pain points more deeply, developers will be able to add comments for every question and leave them anonymously.

The collected data will be aggregated and presented in the form of a dashboard to:

• analyze potential problem areas across teams
• track trends over time for recurring questions
• view all developers’ comments to find the most common pain points.

To collect data regularly and monitor the progress of actions applied, we’ll offer the possibility of scheduling recurring surveys for a chosen period.

Why Choose DevEx Surveys for Bitbucket

Developer Experience Surveys for Bitbucket go beyond what manual questionnaires can offer and allow teams to:

• Fill out surveys directly within Bitbucket to ensure easy access for all developers to share their opinion.
• Use pre-built templates to create surveys with just a few clicks and gather insights on the most common challenges developers face during their work.
• Schedule recurring surveys to track trends in developer satisfaction over time.
• Check quantitative data (developers’ feedback) and qualitative metrics from Awesome Graphs in one place to identify inefficiencies and track how changes made affected all aspects of developer productivity.
• Automate summarizing the results to ensure every developer’s voice is heard without overwhelming managers or requiring time-consuming manual analysis.

Developer Experience Survey Template

As part of our work on DevEx Sureys for Bitbucket, we’ve created a free template to help you start gathering feedback today. Whether you manage a small team like ours or are in charge of a large development department, this template will give you a simple yet effective way to improve your team’s experience.

Fill out the form below to get a free Developer Experience Survey Template from the Awesome Graphs for Bitbucket team.

If you have any questions about Developer Experience Surveys for Bitbucket or would like to share your thoughts on the solution, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be happy to hear your feedback and take it into account when shaping our solution!