“She created the most used frameworks for measuring developer experience called Dora and Space.”
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SPACE
By Nicole Forsgren and collaborators
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“space is a framework. It doesn't tell you what metric to use.”
MentionsThe engineering mindset
“DX is designed by the researchers behind Frameworks such as Dora space and devx”
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