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