
Before developer productivity became an AI-era boardroom question, Noda was chasing stale pull requests in Slack. Two acquisitions, a research company, and one very practical book later, he is still asking what gets in the way of good work.

After social work, cloud sales, and one startup, the Workhelix CEO found his next problem hiding inside corporate AI budgets: companies could count the tools they bought, but not the value they created.