#Employee-Happiness

This article offers 11 practical tips to combat survey fatigue, a common issue when gathering developer experience insights. Key strategies include clarifying survey purpose, simplifying content, making it engaging, reducing frequency, timing it well, and ensuring optional anonymity. These tactics aim to enhance participation, improve the quality of responses, and ultimately, derive more accurate data to enhance the developer experience within an organization. Be mindful of incentivizing, as it may affect the sincerity of responses. These strategies are designed to provide a more efficient and effective surveying approach.

High-performing Organizations make sure that everybody has the information they need to do their job with alignment, autonomy and excellence. Default-to-open can help to ensure this.

The Inverse Conway Manoeuvre is unlikely to work in existing sociotechnical systems of a certain size and stability. It is even less likely to work in remote companies and distributed teams.

Keeping the balance between deep work and being available for other teams can be especially challenging for platform- and enabling-teams. In this article I share the mechanisms that the developer experience team at BRYTER used to sucessfully maintain this balance.

Deep work and team work are not mutual exclusive but deeply interconneted. Collaborating as a team is the purest and most efficient form of deep work and can help your team to achieve peak performance.

Maintaining amble of focus and deep work time as an individual is a critical precondition of being part of a high-performing team. In this article I will give seven tips on how to get more deep work time throughout your week.