What is a developer experience team?

Developer experience teams have become increasingly common over the past five years. Here’s everything you need to know about how they work.

Despite the growing number of developer experience teams in tech companies, these groups don’t yet share a common framework for how they should be run. This is apparent both in their naming and their varying scopes of work: we see developer productivity teams, engineering effectiveness, and engineering enablement, and we see some groups focus more on tools and others more on people. 

Regardless of their names or defined scope, these teams share an underlying principle to improve developer productivity by reducing friction from suboptimal tools and processes.

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