No More Ninjas
How does a software company attract talent? Compensation? That’s how they attract people. Free lunches and foosball tables? Keep guessing. The most effective way for a company to bag top-tier engineers is simple: let developers be developers. Engineers Drive Innovation Software is a symbiotic creature, and there are two ways a product is built: from the top down and the bottom up. Top-down development means that requirements are curated by and flow from the business, product owners, and managers, downward to the engineers. With the latter, developers explore new ideas and use technology that may be outside the organization’s standard gamut. Ideas for new products or features are born and pushed up to product owners where they can be cultivated. ...