Getting Airbnb’s Platform team to drive more impact: Reorganizing, defining strategy, and metrics

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Engineering Enablement by DX

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This is a weekly podcast focused on developer productivity and the teams and leaders dedicated to improving it. Topics include in-depth interviews with Platform and DevEx teams, as well as the latest research and approaches on measuring developer productivity. The EE podcast is hosted by Abi Noda, the founder and CEO of DX (getdx.com) and published researcher focused on developing measurement methods to help organizations improve developer experience and productivity.

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Getting Airbnb’s Platform team to drive more impact: Reorganizing, defining strategy, and metrics

Engineering Enablement by DX

32 minutes

8 months ago

Getting Airbnb’s Platform team to drive more impact: Reorganizing, defining strategy, and metrics

In this episode, Airbnb Developer Productivity leader Anna Sulkina shares the story of how her team transformed itself and became more impactful within the organization. She starts by describing how the team previously operated, where teams were delivering but felt they needed more clarity and alignment across teams. Then, the conversation digs into the key changes they made, including reorganizing the team, clarifying team roles, defining strategy, and improving their measurement systems.

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Discussion points:

(0:00) Intro
(1:40) Skills that make a great developer productivity leader
(4:36) Challenges in how the team operated previously
(10:49) Changing the platform org’s focus and structure
(16:04) Clarifying roles for EM’s, PM’s, and tech leads
(20:22) How Airbnb defined its infrastructure org’s strategy
(28:23) Improvements they’ve seen to developer experience satisfaction
(32:13) The evolution of Airbnb’s developer experience survey