SDTimes Industry Watch: The developer transformation

[Lars Fosdal 1800]

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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/

[Kryvich 165]

Who sweeps your office floor? :)

[Lars Fosdal 1800]

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.

[Kryvich 165]

Yes, I get it. Just kidding.

In small companies where I worked, the above usually happens.

[dummzeuch 1536]

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...

[Der schöne Günther 323]

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)

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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)?

 

[Allen@Grijjy 44]

Interesting article, thanks for sharing it

[Lars Fosdal 1800]

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?

[Joseph MItzen 253]

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". 😈