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Lauren Craigie & Justin Reock - Cortex: Looking for a Portal to SPACE

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Our pilot episode of Prefrontal by Cortex! Lauren Craigie (Head of PMM at Cortex) is joined by Justin Reock, Head of Developer Relations at Cortex for a conversation about meausuring developer productivity. You'll hear:

-How DORA and SPACE relate to one another

-Why the SPACE framework has faced headwinds despite increasing support

-What the developer tooling ecosystem has been missing to make metrics actionable Studies and materials referenced throughout the conversation: Peopleware Book - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/...

SPACE Framework - https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3...

April 2022 study showing deep misalignment between ICs and GCs and not enough concern for (S)atisfaction (p.4 Table 4) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.04302.pdf

Blog on disconnect between outcomes and output - https://www.cortex.io/post/the-only-w...

Cortex Eng Intelligence announcement - https://www.cortex.io/post/introducin...

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