DEV Community: Elmer Thomas

Double Your Development Velocity without Growing Your Team

Elmer Thomas — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:42:05 +0000

The Developer Experience (DX) team at SendGrid is a small, but mighty force of two. We attempt to tackle every problem that we can get our hands on. This often means that some items get left behind. At the outset, we surveyed everything that was going on in our open source libraries and we quickly realized that we needed to find a way to prioritize what we were going to work on. Luckily, our team lives, organizationally, on the Product Management team, and we had just received a gentle nudge and training on the RICE prioritization framework. This post explains how SendGrid implemented RICE within the DX team.

https://medium.com/@mbernier/double-your-development-velocity-without-growing-your-team-bbea26355132

Written by Matt Bernier, former SendGrid DX Product Manager.

SDKs and World Class Developer Experience

Elmer Thomas — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:30:19 +0000

Developing an SDK for your API can significantly increase the developer experience by providing native support for a developer's preferred programming environment. This article describes some best practices, strategies, and processes to help your API provide a world-class developer experience.

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Improving SendGrid’s Open Source Software Development Kit: PHP Edition

Elmer Thomas — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:30:04 +0000

SendGrid's Developer Experience team recently overhauled the PHP software development kit to support v3 of the SendGrid API.

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