Mat C.’s Post

If your engineers aren’t delivering at the speed you expect, it’s almost never a talent problem. It’s an experience problem. Most companies fall into the same pattern. Teams full of capable people, slowed down by daily friction: • Environments that break • Outdated or missing docs • Permissions that take days • Tools everyone configures their own way • Processes no one understands but everyone follows • Human blockers that hurt more than any bug And then we wonder why velocity drops, quality suffers, and morale sinks. The issue isn’t your people. The issue is Developer Experience. When you improve DevEx, very real things happen: ✔️ Delivery speeds up ✔️ Defects decrease ✔️ Attrition drops ✔️ Satisfaction and autonomy rise ✔️ And all of that translates into lower costs and stronger products DevEx isn’t “soft.” It’s not a luxury. It’s not something you get to “when there’s time.” It’s cultural infrastructure. It’s the actual operating system of your engineering org. Companies like Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and Shopify already understand this: you don’t buy speed with more processes or more control. You get speed by reducing friction and increasing clarity. If you want your team to deliver at full velocity, the question isn’t: “How do I make them work faster?” The real question is: “What part of their daily experience is slowing down people who are already good?” That’s where the real transformation starts.