The State of the Internal Developer Portal in 2025 is really a state of the DevLife • 75% of developers are losing 6-15 hours every week due to Dev Tool sprawl • Majority of devs do not have a single source of truth for services metadata • And the majority also have to wait more than a day for any Ops resquests. https://thenewstack.io/developers-unhappy-with-tool-sprawl-lagging-data-long-waits/

business as usual

you’re not wrong @Jordan Chernev — when will companies try to optimize the lives of their most expensive assets?

Judging by layoff trends pretty sure we’re still costs not assets but that cycle will wheel around again in time!

I don’t believe that. Most of the layoffs were at highly profitable companies. I think orgs are just forgetting their responsibility to those they hire

it honestly is a hard question and perhaps a very existential one for the domain of PE. while people feel and think PE has direct and indirect influence on positive business and technical outcomes, it’s very hard to prove and quantify that in practice. it’s all very fuzzy, really as such, you end up with organization who choose to believe in the effort, while others don’t. i admit this is a very hard nut to crack, simply because of positioning of PE internally, especially when related to other peer domains. i don’t have the answers either but it’s good to talk about this inherent limitation

It is also just tech not being great (respectfully said) at measuring business impact and communicating that

doubly so if you are a team that’s relatively inexperienced in product management and has much slower release cadence than say product teams sitting closer to the end customer / user

A cultural aspect here is a carry over from sysadmin -> devops -> PE, which is often times combative or impudent towards development teams. Not that dev's themselves are saints in this regard. The issue of course is PE teams really need devs to be their champions, not just captive audience members. The places that get this to a symbiotic relationship think more strategically than just numbers in a spreadsheet or on a "scorecard"