Sad Fact: If your developers are under-appreciated, unhappy, or stagnant, your software product may suffer.
Happy Fact: Happier developers build better products on shorter timelines at lower cost.
So how do you help your developers feel happy, fulfilled, and engaged?
If your developers seem unhappy, dissatisfied or just like they’re struggling, the place for you to start is seeking understanding. Understanding is the fuel of empathy, and empathy is what creates perspective shifts. Once you’ve had a perspective shift that allows you to see understand their viewpoint and experience, new actions flow easily and naturally. For example, this type of perspective shift is how we came up with our winning approach to daily standups.
Often, tech leaders or product owners don’t have enough understanding of the problems faced by software engineers. If they did, they’d probably do things differently that would help their developers feel happier, fulfilled, and committed. In this ENO8 Answers, we help you get the understanding and perspective shift you need to easily build and maintain thriving development teams! When developer satisfaction increases, developer productivity naturally increases as well.
That’s a win-win!
