Developer Relations: How to Build and Grow a Successful Developer Program

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26. Metrics

Measuring and Monitoring Goals and Activities

Caroline Lewko¹   and James Parton²

(1)

Vancouver, BC, Canada

(2)

London, UK

 

A fundamental component of managing your program is to measure its performance. Metrics, as we have seen, can be a murky area for many developer programs. You can guarantee any conference on DevRel will have a speaker or section dedicated to metrics. There is also no shortage of data to measure and opinions on what you should measure!

Problems arise when programs don’t know what to measure, don’t know how to measure, aren’t measuring the right things, ...