Does Software Development Use Its Best Developers Effectively?

Developers work better when used well

Ben "The Hosk" Hosking
5 min readMar 30, 2023
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A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder

Good software developers have a big impact on software development. On every successful software project, there is strong a senior team to lead the other developers.

How a software project uses its best developers can be the difference between a project succeeding or failing. No matter how good leadership or management is, without at least one good developer, it won’t be successful.

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Ben "The Hosk" Hosking

Technology philosopher | Software dev → Solution architect | Avid reader | Life long learner