Lars Fosdal 1765 Posted November 13, 2018 Quote Clearly, it’s time to look at what you have your developers working on, and to free them from menial tasks to create products that drive business value. https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/industry-watch-the-developer-transformation/ 2 Share this post Link to post
Lars Fosdal 1765 Posted November 13, 2018 Precisely 🙂 More often, it is about devs doing operational care and maintenance, first line support, etc - or devs doing tasks such as second line failure / error analysis and verifying that a problem can be reproduced before escalating. Share this post Link to post
Kryvich 163 Posted November 13, 2018 Yes, I get it. Just kidding. In small companies where I worked, the above usually happens. Share this post Link to post
dummzeuch 1456 Posted March 4, 2019 A colleague of mine just cleaned his desk and cupboard. And by "cleaned" I don't mean "remove his stuff" but literally remove the dust accrued over several years. Talk about menial tasks... Share this post Link to post
Der schöne Günther 310 Posted March 4, 2019 In case anyone wonders, here is the original "study": https://stripe.com/files/reports/the-developer-coefficient.pdf Sure, this PowerPoint has nice colours and everything, but I really don't know what to make of things like (emphasis by me) Quote How many hours per week do you estimate developers at your company waste on maintenance (i.e. dealing with bad code / errors, debugging, refactoring, modifying)? 1 Share this post Link to post
Allen@Grijjy 44 Posted March 5, 2019 Interesting article, thanks for sharing it 1 Share this post Link to post
Lars Fosdal 1765 Posted March 6, 2019 On 3/4/2019 at 10:58 AM, Der schöne Günther said: How many hours per week do you estimate developers at your company waste on maintenance (i.e. dealing with bad code / errors, debugging, refactoring, modifying)? It is waste if you spend time continuously fixing the same broken code, instead of buying or rebuilding something that can replace it and reduce "daily" maintenance chores? 1 Share this post Link to post
Joseph MItzen 246 Posted June 2, 2019 On 3/6/2019 at 5:22 AM, Lars Fosdal said: It is waste if you spend time continuously fixing the same broken code, instead of buying or rebuilding something that can replace it and reduce "daily" maintenance chores? I asked the Embarcadero IDE team and they said "no". 😈 1 1 Share this post Link to post