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Back Mechanic

By Stuart McGill

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The tell-tale signals that friction, not capability, is capping your team's speed

Know whether your metric is a recipe or a lens — and never misuse a recipe

Front-load the architecture, fan out to agents, then step back and evaluate

Pick two or three metrics that speak the exact word your leaders keep repeating

Before you build a tool, walk developers through their yesterday

A start-anywhere playbook to stand up a developer-experience initiative

Pick balanced developer productivity metrics across five dimensions — never rely on one.

Force a top-three, weight by frequency, and never ask four questions at once

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