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HAY's DX Platform — Improve your dev team’s work output, wellbeing & teamwork
Elevate Developer Experience (DX) with every one-on-one meeting. Build a vibrant and committed engineering team by improving happiness, fostering collaboration, and optimizing productivity.
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Hi Tomasz, Congrats on your great tool! Employee wellbeing is so important nowadays and your product sounds fantastic to improve the team output while consideration is also given to wellbeing!
@jakepage Thanks for showing interest! Actually, we designed it hoping we wouldn't get there with certain checks and balances along the way with pulse checks and seeing productivity slumps. Our best tool is probably the 1:1, which helps to gain more wellbeing insights, and all the data that EMs gather up to that moment.
This is a beautiful product. Just from experience in a large organisation - I would consider adding a MS Teams integration.
I really like the wellbeing feature. Team progress on projects is more of a concern for Project Managers / Product Owners and is better managed on tools like JIRA - but otherwise really great product!
@wisanishilumanimakes Thank you! Yes, we're working on creating different integrations to add more value!
When companies have the possibility of seeing this data in real time FROM THE SOURCE (aka employees) it seems crazy not to use it. Excellent work!!
This looks really cool for managers and team leads but I'm not sure if I could get ICs excited about this. I wonder of you have any experiences, testimonials, quotes from team members that use this and find it helpful. Getting adoption and buy-in from them would be my big concern.
@bradydowling Thanks for the question and for showing interest. Yes, from our teams. We started off with the plug-in, then seeing how our devs found value, we started to build out the web app version. It actually brought the teams closer and improved communication and collaboration. Being more prepared for 1:1 meetings, our EMs were able to address issues related to DX, and that helped us deliver more efficiently.
Congratulations on the launch! Looks like a useful tool to help make team members more happy and productive.
Interested to know if the amount of code in commits is taken into account?
@oleksandr_zhabin Thanks Oleksandr! Yes, and it also reflects in the visualization with graph size and lines of code.
@adamgold7 Thanks for the question and showing interest. The pulse survey allows EMs to spot signals from those who may need support. This is based on a short, declarative survey in real-time, but is then a topic to deepen during a 1:1 meeting. Sometimes acting right away is an important factor for effective support.
It also allows you to see the change in results over time because it is short and repeated, for example, once a week.
@sentry_co Great question! We hope HAY doesn't overcomplicate things. We purposely made it a simple solution, unlike some of our competitors, which we believe focus too much on metrics.
Really interesting approach! Boosting and maintaining team’s productivity is a permanent challenge. Does your tool offer some ideas for improvement when the team’s performance is lagging behind?
@shambalyov Thank you for showing interest! We try to look at everything in context, and when certain risk factors appear, we address them in a 1:1 meeting. Of course, addressing this might be a challenge but with honest and open feedback, EMs should have enough data at their fingertips to tackle any problem.
Seems like a great idea! We can really have great colleagues, but lose them to burnout, so it's nice to have a tool to catch the problem before it's too late.
To be honest, I think it can be used in other industries too. For example, I know that people in marketing tend to overwork, managing all possible marketing channels every day 🤔
Anyway, great job and congratulations on the launch!
@michaelshver Thanks Michael! Definitely, and making sure that wellbeing and happiness are checked is super important. In fact, it appears to play a huge role as to why devs quit OR quit their managers as they fail to address important work-life balance issues and satisfaction.
I'm always hesitant with any reporting dashboard that is surfacing metrics such as number of commits / developer. This ultimately gets extrapolated to represent individual developer productivity and it's a really poor placeholder metric for that. Engineers who take a greater responsibility in tasks such as: unblocking others, mentoring juniors, interviewing, architecting, review and even engineers who take small easily shippable tasks, or vanity commits for metrics (fixed typo) come out looking more productive in this system.
Sure, I like how your tool reaches out to individuals and collects personalised feedback from individual contributors. But surfacing commits as "work output" there at the top of your page, just icks me.
@jamie_hunt Thank you for your feedback. You made some great points. I've seen in the past many tools used but instead of empowering developers, the tools are used to oppress. We always encourage EMs to look at productivity data in context and look at the developer more holistically.
Congratulations on the launch, looks really nice, I think this can help my team save a lot of time!
@boris_moris44 Thank you! Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!
Crazy good idea -- tying developer well-being to productivity! Love it!!! Keep going Tomasz and team!
I'm all for ideas that boost team morale and productivity, which is why I'm hitting the upvote. It's like finding that secret sauce that makes work not only efficient but also more satisfying for everyone involved.
how user-friendly is the platform for managers not so tech-savvy? Can they get it rolling without a hitch?
@aman_wen Hi Aman, yes! Thank you for the support! We did quite a bit of research with engineering managers of all types. We got great feedback from them. Feel free to check it out - we welcome your feedback, too!
Congratulations on the launch of HAY's DX Platform, Tomek and Mareta! 🚀
Improving developer experience and enhancing teamwork are crucial aspects for a successful engineering team. How do you envision HAY's DX Platform evolving in the future to further optimize productivity and happiness within dev teams?
Looking forward to seeing the impact of your innovative solution on the tech community!
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