Rethinking developer experience at T-Mobile: DevEx vs devprod, exec buy-in, and developer self-service

Chris Chandleris a Senior Member of the Technical Staff for Developer Productivity at T-Mobile. Chris has led several major initiatives to improve developer experience including their internal developer portal, Starter Kits (a patented developer platform that predates Backstage), and Workforce Transformation Bootcamps for onboarding developers faster.

Mentions and links:

• Follow Chris on LinkedIn
• Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4
• Listen to Decoder with Nilay Patel.

Discussion points:

• (0:47) From developer experience to developer productivity
• (7:03) Getting executive buy-in for developer productivity initiatives
• (13:54) What Chris’s team is responsible for
• (17:02) How they’ve built relationships with other teams
• (20:57) How they built and got funding for Dev Console and Starter Kits
• (27:23) Homegrown solution vs Backstage