#824 Upgrading Beyond Dashboard Graveyards with Dylan Etkin, Founder & CEO at Sleuth
Today, we’re talking to Dylan Etkin, founder and CEO of Sleuth, to dive deep into the world of engineering metrics and team alignment. Dylan shares insights on how CTOs can move beyond "dashboard graveyards" and implement meaningful metrics that drive real change.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
To learn more about Sleuth, check out their website here: https://www.sleuth.io/
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About Dylan Etkin
I've spent the last couple years at a small startup, StatusPage, following my passion for building engineering teams. There I was able to explore all aspects of what's required to run a growing, successful business and how best to craft an engineering team to fit.
Prior to that I spent nine years building state of the art software development tools at Atlassian. Most recently, I led the development and operations teams for Bitbucket. Together with my team, we grew the site from 40 thousand to 2 million users, grew our storage array from 4 to 400 terabytes, all while pushing the envelope of software development practices with Git. I was the lead developer on JIRA for five years during which I created JQL (JIRA Query Language).
As a leader, I find you must love your product and your team. You must have a vision of success and be articulate in your communication of that vision. You must sweat the details. You must inspire as well as hold accountable. You must lead by example and have a strong understanding of the technology. You must understand your costs. Most of all, you must build and ship quality code, early and often, that solves the right problem.
About Sleuth
Sleuth empowers Engineering to align and execute at elite level.
It provides leaders and managers with the framework and tools to operationalize goals, drive predictable delivery, and ensure operational excellence.
Sleuth works by making engineering reviews painless and productive, through metrics-driven and AI-assisted templates designed to foster shared context and accountability.
Sleuth pre-populates your review templates with data from your existing tools, such as Jira, GitHub, PagerDuty, and more.
What is an engineering review?
Engineering reviews are how an Engineering organization operationalizes their goals. They typically involve meetings, reports and metrics like DORA metrics.
Examples of reviews include: monthly State of Engineering check-ins, status weekly, tech ops reviews, sprint reviews, resource allocation syncs, and more.alysts and engineers alike to safely deploy, monitor, and investigate that code—all in one web-based UI.