Maximizing Developer Effectiveness

My colleague Tim Cochran has helped many software engineering organizations transform to respond faster to changing market needs. Often companies struggle with these transformations and a primary reason for these problems is that engineering organization has neglected to provide developers with an effective working environment. The key to to developing an effective environment is to concentrate on feedback loops.

In this first installment, Tim contrasts a developer's day between high-effectiveness and low-effectiveness environments, using this contrast to show that poor organizations need to remove the common frictions that make developers feel unproductive .

more… https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.html

Created 4y | Jan 5, 2021, 3:20:24 PM


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