Should You Hire More Software Engineers or Better Manage the Ones You Have?

Written by alex.circei | Published 2020/02/03
Tech Story Tags: software-development | productivity | engineering-management | software-engineering-metrics | recruiting | team-management | team-productivity | tech-debt | web-monetization

TLDR According to a report published in 2018 by Stripe, the majority of 1, 000 + developers, technical leaders and C-level executives polled felt that access to developers is more important than access to capital. With 17 million developers active in 2018, their study points to approximately $ 300 billion Global GDP loss from developer inefficiency annually. The study estimated that 21 hours of developers’ and software engineers’ weekly work hours could be put to better use than dealing with maintenance issues (bugging, refactoring, “bad” code, etc.) or addressing “technical debt”via the TL;DR App
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Written by alex.circei | CEO & Co-founder Waydev
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/02/03
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