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Paul Graham
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Great Hackers
A great programmer might be ten or a hundred times as productive as an ordinary one,
but he'll consider himself lucky to get paid three times as much.
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10 Developers For The Price Of One
Good Developers...
...take Ownership so You Don't Have To
...Write Code With Less Bugs
...Write Maintainable Code
...Do More With Less Code
Ten mediocre programmers will cost you several times as much as one
really good programmer. And their code will be buggier, will take longer to develop,
will consume more of your time, and will be more expensive to maintain.
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raganwald
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What is managing software development?
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Jake's Programming Blog
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How to Waste a Lot of Money in Software Development
Change Personnel The most expensive thing a company can do is fire or lay-off someone.
Rewrite Your Code Throwing away code is like firing a bunch of workers.
Maniacally Minimize Cost When someone hires ten mediocrities at $30K/yr less, they SEE savings of $30K/yr, but what they don't see is that if they had hired one good software developer at $90K/yr, they would not have to hire ten of them, just one.
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Nick Corcodilos
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IT talent shortage, or management failure?
- Companies advertise with overly-narrow job descriptions.
- Companies permit HR to screen candidates.
- IT workers are disgusted and leaving the field.
- HR continues to rely on the big job boards
- Companies try to hire talent rather than develop it.
- ... companies hire only when they are desperate
- ... companies lose their best people
Many companies don't even hire talent.
They hire specific skills and experience,
making it very hard for capable newcomers to enter the market
and for experienced programmers to switch to new technologies.
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