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💯👩‍🚀 SPACE vs DORA: Ask Trisha...

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💯👩‍🚀 SPACE vs DORA: Ask Trisha...

SPACE is a framework for thinking about developer productivity.

The acronym stands for:

S – Satisfaction & well‑being

How happy, healthy and engaged developers are (job satisfaction, stress, burnout, perceived productivity).

P – Performance

Outcomes and quality of work, not just volume (business impact, reliability, user value).

A – Activity

Observable work done (commits, reviews, deployments, tickets), interpreted carefully.

C – Communication & collaboration

How effectively people and teams interact (code reviews, cross‑team coordination, information flow).

E – Efficiency & flow

How smoothly work progresses (cycle time, time in “flow”, waiting/queueing, interruptions, context switching).

The key idea: you should not measure productivity with only one type of metric (like just activity or just output); you choose a small, balanced set of metrics across several SPACE dimensions.

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