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Recommended: Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money


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I just stumbled across this 2006 post, but Rob Walling hit it out of the park. Here’s the short version of his post about what developers really want.

  1. Being Set Up to Succeed
  2. Having Excellent Management
  3. Learning New Things
  4. Exercising Creativity and Solving the Right Kind of Problems
  5. Having a Voice
  6. Being Recognized for Hard Work
  7. Building Something that Matters
  8. Building Software without an Act of Congress
  9. Having Few Legacy Constraints

Please go read the whole thing. (Via YDN)

  • LovelyParadox

    As a developer, I totally relate!! I am currently working with a middle manager who is more concerned about things not sticking to him than actually solving the problem/building the app… It gets very frustrating. And yes, could we just write code without having to alert 311 different departments? Big companies frustrate me. Ugh. :)