Code is everyone's business

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Nearly every company now produces software or applications to enable it to do business. That can include using software as an interface to customer support, enabling e-commerce channels, and powering internal operations to serve customers and keep the business running. By Brian Rue.

If you’re not paying attention to code, that inattention can create problems down the line for your business. Here’s why – and what you can do to avoid such problems, improve your code to stay competitive and grow, and engage and retain your customers and employees. The article then reads about:

  • Learn how code is different from physical products
  • Use data to improve your code
  • Plan with continuous improvement in mind
  • Recognize that you need quality code to be competitive
  • Keep in mind that your people make your code

Avoid thinking about your code and engineering teams as a black box. Developers are people who are interested in helping you improve your products and code. But without the right tools, developers become frustrated and disengaged. According to “Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering”, being stuck in problem-solving and time pressure are the two most frequent causes of unhappiness for developers. The book adds that “the third most frequent cause of unhappiness is to work with bad code and, more specifically, with bad code practices.”

That’s a real problem, considering that, as TechRepublic reported this year, 61% of human resources professionals believe that hiring developers will be their biggest challenge in 2021. Good read!

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