Comment on The Nonsense of 10X Developers and GitHub as a CVComments−sheepmullet11yEnvironment and culture certainly play a big role in developer productivity. You can do a lot with average.That being said in any kind of large organisation changing the culture is 100x harder and slower than hiring better developers.IMO, building/creating 10x programmers in your area of business is simple but it is not easy.- Ensure at least 25% of your developers times are spent on learning and development.- Give them the freedom to work on what they think are the most important tasks to the business (e.g. Something similar to open allocation)- Ensure you are paying your developers at least market+20% in order to minimise turnover so you actually get something out of creating 10x'ers.Now go and try and change a large organisations culture to be like the above. I'll wait.... And wait... And wait
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Environment and culture certainly play a big role in developer productivity. You can do a lot with average.
That being said in any kind of large organisation changing the culture is 100x harder and slower than hiring better developers.
IMO, building/creating 10x programmers in your area of business is simple but it is not easy.
- Ensure at least 25% of your developers times are spent on learning and development.
- Give them the freedom to work on what they think are the most important tasks to the business (e.g. Something similar to open allocation)
- Ensure you are paying your developers at least market+20% in order to minimise turnover so you actually get something out of creating 10x'ers.
Now go and try and change a large organisations culture to be like the above. I'll wait.... And wait... And wait