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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Developer productivity is a hot topic right now. One conclusion we can probably all agree on is that modeling developer productivity is hard. Can we use these five ideas as a lens through which we can look at developer productivity? Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity?

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: R&D in software development

Apiumhub

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD).

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Top Offshore Development Destinations: Number of Developers, Salaries & More

Mobilunity

Are you challenged to keep up with the digital transformation’s growing demands while dealing with skyrocketing developer rates in your country? The good news is offshore development teams come as a perfect solution to these concerns. Learn about the number of developers available, their salary rates, technology stacks, and beyond.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

In 1970, he joined Xerox PARC and worked on the development of Smalltalk with the research staff. In 1997, his friend recruited him as the head of research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering and became a Disney Fellow. In 2004, the Kyoto prize. He formulated the idea of laptops, tablets, and e-books.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO

Ada Developers Academy is a nonprofit, cost-free coding school for women and gender expansive adults that also prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and low-income people. Participants also take part in a paid “applied learning internship” that teaches students how to write code and the skills to become a software developer. Ada’s List.

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Oleksandr Medovoi, President & CEO of AltexSoft, Elected to the Council of Representatives of the IT Ukraine Association

Altexsoft

The new composition of the Council of Representatives will determine the strategy and development vectors of the IT Ukraine Association and the entire industry for 2024. The mission of the Association is to help create favorable conditions for the sustainable development of the Ukrainian IT industry.