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1 | 0Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) null/SLASHDOT/0102640098 70\r |
2 | i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (BeauHD)\r | |
3 | i from the new-breed-of-corporate-leaders dept.\r | |
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5 | i An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC:\r |
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7 | i > As our global economy increasingly comes to run on\r | |
8 | i technology-enabled rails and every company becomes a tech\r | |
9 | i company, demand for high-quality software engineers is at an\r | |
10 | i all-time high. A recent study from [1]Stripe and Harris Poll\r | |
11 | i found that 61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to\r | |
12 | i developer talent is a threat to the success of their business.\r | |
13 | i Perhaps more surprisingly -- as we mark a decade after the\r | |
14 | i financial crisis -- [2]this threat was even ranked above\r | |
15 | i capital constraints . And yet, despite being many\r | |
16 | i corporations' most precious resource, developer talents are\r | |
17 | i all too often squandered. Collectively, companies today lose\r | |
18 | i upward of $300 billion a year paying down "technical debt," as\r | |
19 | i developers pour time into maintaining legacy systems or\r | |
20 | i dealing with the ramifications of bad software. This is\r | |
21 | i especially worrisome, given the outsized impact developers\r | |
22 | i have on companies' chances of success. Software developers\r | |
23 | i don't have a monopoly on good ideas, but their skill set makes\r | |
24 | i them a uniquely deep source of innovation, productivity and\r | |
25 | i new economic connections. When deployed correctly, developers\r | |
26 | i can be economic multipliers -- coefficients that dramatically\r | |
27 | i ratchet up the output of the teams and companies of which\r | |
28 | i they're a part.\r | |
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32 | i [1] https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient-2018\r | |
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34 | i [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/companies-worry-more-about-\r | |
35 | i access-to-software-developers-than-capital.html\r | |
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