What Engineers and Developers Really Do All Day
- 2. *Design prototype by Stephen Allport
most people think engineers
spend all of their time
cool stuff
creating
- 5. we have to find and fix
100
per 1,000 lines of code
product bugs
(thatโs a lot)
- 7. it takes 30x longer to fix
one bug than to write
one line of code
- 8. we spend 75% of our time
debugging
our own (and our teammatesโ) designs
- 12. add up 75% of all product
engineering salaries in the US
plus the cost of their debug tools
- 15. with $113 billion, you could
end world hunger $30B
and buy
$30B $10B $4B $4B $4B
$4B $3.3B $2.5B $2B $2B
and still have $17B left
- 16. if there were ways to debug
faster, more of that $113
billion could go toward
making new, cool stuff
- 18. more complex
is a nice way of saying
โhas a lot more bugs to
fix before it shipsโ
- 19. if we canโt fix all of the bugs on time,
schedules slip and our products are
late-to-market
- 20. shipping your product late
costs you a lotof money
https://www.initialstate.com/LateCalc
hereโs a calculator to
show you how much
- 21. #1 cause for schedule slips?
too many bugs,
too little time
- 22. forcing us to work weekends
and overtime wonโt fix this
productivity plunges
- 23. when you ask us to do the
impossible(which you inevitably will)
- 25. we need multiple hours of
uninterrupted time
preferably in 4-hour blocks
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- 26. putting us in a bunch of meetings is a
great way for us to get nothing done
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- 27. give us the freedom
to be awesome
don't micromanage
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- 28. buy us the tools we need
you donโt mow a lawn with a pair of scissors
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- 29. give us an awesome place to work
we spend a lot of time here, we should love it
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