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