Developer satisfaction surveys are a key tool for understanding and improving the developer experience. From conducting a structured survey and identifying friction points to publishing results and building the business case for investment, each stage requires specific professional vocabulary. This exercise covers the collocations used by DevEx teams, platform product managers, and engineering leaders in developer survey programmes.
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The DevEx team decided to ___ a developer satisfaction survey to understand pain points in the deployment pipeline.
Conduct a developer survey is the standard research and DevEx collocation — surveys are 'conducted' as structured research exercises with defined methodology and analysis. 'Run' is informal but also used; 'send' focuses on distribution; 'create' focuses on design. 'Conduct' implies the full end-to-end research activity including design, distribution, collection, and analysis.
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The platform team used the survey results to ___ the top friction points in the developer onboarding experience.
Identify friction points is the precise developer experience research collocation — survey analysis 'identifies' specific pain points by name so teams can prioritise improvements. 'Find' implies accidental discovery; 'highlight' is used in the communication step; 'discover' suggests something unexpected. 'Identify' is the standard research term for systematically locating and naming specific problems from data.
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The engineering manager shared the survey findings with the team and asked each squad to ___ on the top three issues affecting their workflow.
Reflect on the findings is the natural team learning collocation — squads 'reflect' on survey data to contextualise it against their own experience before taking action. 'Act on' is the subsequent step; 'respond' implies a formal reply; 'comment' is informal. 'Reflect on' is the standard Agile and team learning phrase for deliberate, structured consideration of new information.
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The DevEx lead committed to ___ the survey results quarterly so teams could track improvements over time.
Publish the survey results is the standard transparency and DevEx communication collocation — results are 'published' to the wider engineering organisation to build trust and accountability. 'Share' is informal; 'report' implies hierarchy; 'repeat' refers to running the survey again. 'Publish' implies making results formally accessible in a structured format, such as a dashboard or internal blog post.
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The head of engineering used the developer satisfaction scores to ___ the business case for increased investment in developer tooling.
Build the business case is the standard internal advocacy collocation — survey data is used to 'build' a business case that justifies investment in developer experience improvements. 'Create' is also used; 'make' is informal; 'support' implies the business case already exists. 'Build the business case' is the fixed phrase for assembling evidence, argument, and financial justification for a proposed investment.