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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
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[INFO] Total time: 11:29 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-09-25T15:59:34+02:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 289M/1668M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------What Is A Software Developer?!
Is That All You Need To Know?!
What Motivates Software Developers?!
Drew Eckhardt’s Answer
Solving hard technical problems other people can’t.
Coming up with neat ideas, implementing them, and seeing your vision work.
Working with great people and doing more than you can as an individual.
Growing other engineers so they are stronger and faster.
Crushing competition. I love the smell of exponential growth in the morning, it smells like victory.
404 - Not Found
Keep the legacy system running
No budget and time for neat ideas
Working with grumpy colleagues
No learning & mentoring anywhere
What Are The Alternatives?
Introducing The KEY Principle
Most Stuff You Know Now Will Be Obsolete in Five Years.
The Technology Race
IT industry is constantly re-inventing itself
New technology solves old problems
New technology creates new problems
Developers love & need to use new stuff
Without constant learning we will be (made) redundant
Software Developers Need To Learn New Stuff.
What Is The Flow?
Flow, also know as zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
Flow & Software Developers
As software developers we occasionally get to experience that glorious state of productivity where we are in the zone, time flies by, and features come flowing out of us.
Disturbing The Flow
Noise
Meetings
Unscheduled interruptions
Waiting for something
Waiting For Something?
Standard Developer Laptop
Overall build time 11:29 min
High-End iMac 2016
Overall build time 04:31 min
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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
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[INFO] Total time: 04:31 min (Wall Clock)
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-09-26T11:13:11+02:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 282M/734M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------How To Get A Faster Box?
Where To Find Software Developers You Can Hire?
If You Have A Good Answer Please Tell Gunda
Let’s Assume You Found Your Candidate
Interviewing A Software Developer
In The Search Of Passion
Broad (and realistic) skill set
Side projects on GitHub
Working on Open Source projects
Attending meetups & conferences
StackOverflow, mailing lists
Writing blog entries
Dark Matters Developers
Term coined by Scott Hanselmann
Not everyone is working on bleeding edge
Many of us just get their work done
Hence not visible in the Internet
Dark Matters Developer != Bad Developer
They are just not "Loud Developers"
It’s Greener On The Other Side
Many developers will leave after 2 - 3 years
It is not always about more money
It is about new challenges & opportunities
They younger the more likely to leave
If You Can’t Fight It, Embrace It
Fight It & Embrace It
Foster good team & company spirit
Rotate team members to keep them learning
Avoid the "Single Point Of Knowledge"
Don’t feel bad when the developers are leaving
If they ever come back you did an awesome job
Things To Take Home
Understand their motivation to work for you
Understand their motivation to leave you
Give them room to learn & experiment
Make sure that they find the flow
The Grass Is Greener On The Other Side
Why I’m Here?
Java Backend Developer
Meetup & conference organizer
Apache Software Foundation Member
I’m a "Loud Developer"
Asked a stupid question