R&D is increasingly becoming a bigger line item in total spend and a key differentiator for companies, yet it is often the function that organizations have the least visibility into. Unlike finance or sales and marketing, it is also challenging for engineering leaders to find relevant or publicly available data and insights to benchmark their engineering team performance. 

We use organizational data and industry perspectives to provide detailed answers to the key R&D questions we receive from SaaS leaders. Although engineering and product development are closely tied, this series will be focused primarily on engineering-specific metrics and challenges. We will examine topics spanning the state of modern-day engineering orgs, developer productivity, compensation, org structure, and engineering operations, in order to share best practices and proprietary benchmarks to help you scale your engineering organization.

Additional chapters in this series related to organization structure, compensation, and engineering reporting best practices will be added to this page over the coming months.