# employee motivation

Published articles for employee motivation.

This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles.

## Should we focus on developer experience or developer productivity?

DevFeed: [Should we focus on developer experience or developer productivity?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/should-we-focus-on-developer-experience-or-developer-productivity-39896.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/developer-experience-developer-productivity/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2022-02-26T12:57:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-productivity.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [culture-developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture-developer-productivity.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-productivity.md>), [employee-motivation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/employee-motivation.md>), [experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experience.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [motivation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/motivation.md>), [productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/productivity.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>)

### AI overview

The article argues that developer experience should take priority over developer productivity metrics. It distinguishes experience, which focuses on developers' well-being and working conditions, from productivity or effectiveness, which emphasizes outcomes such as speed, quality, and other KPIs. It contends that excessive metric-driven pressure can reduce motivation and that addressing poor developer experience is a better path to productivity.

### Source excerpt

Should we focus on developer experience or developer productivity? When talking about developer experience, there are a couple of other names thrown into the conversation that all kind-of mean the same, but IMHO have a slightly different touch / focus and can be perceived quite differently.