Information to Inspiration: Morgan Stanley's Data-Driven Approach to Developer Productivity
summary
21,000 developers run ~15 million builds a year and a patented data warehouse called Almanac aggregates Jira Git LDAP CI and more into a DB2 time‑travel store, served via APIs, a Python SDK and Tableau. A Chrome extension surfaces DevOps badges from computed KPIs (DORA, deployment automation rules) and a dependency freshness metric driven by SBOMs. Between 2020–2024 delivery lead time, deployment frequency and change‑failure rate improve by double digits after automated rollout and badge‑driven fixes.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08Speaker backgrounds
- 2:32Developer productivity challenges
- 3:37Agile and DevOps transformation
- 5:22Gamified DevOps with badges
- 6:26Almanac data warehouse evolution
- 8:14Data consumption tools
- 12:47Teams using Almanac
- 13:29Improving deployment automation
- 17:01DevOps adoption outcomes
- 20:17Dependency freshness enforcement
- 23:27Almanac's impact and accessibility
- 24:51AI-driven developer assistant
- 27:26Closing remarks and Q&A
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