Data reveal that the median coding time is 52 minutes/day. Meetings consume 11+ hours per week, pushing peak coding to the afternoons when mornings should be prime.
Shit. I knew it was low, but that’s awful.
As an engineering manager, I use all of the approaches described in the article, and a few others.
It does make a tremendous difference both in output of correct solutions, and in team member retention. And team member retention saves big money - having to spend 18 months to train new a subject matter expert every three years is expensive.
The 18 months onboarding every three years (per each pod of five developers) was the average re-training cost on my teams before I mastered these (and a few other) techniques for managing creative engineering talent.
Edit: and for those who say “I’ve heard it takes less than 18 months” - yes, I know. I probably lied to you to protect my own job. Haha. The truth is important, but the full unvarnished truth is not more important to me than my collecting my next paycheck.
Shit. I knew it was low, but that’s awful.
As an engineering manager, I use all of the approaches described in the article, and a few others.
It does make a tremendous difference both in output of correct solutions, and in team member retention. And team member retention saves big money - having to spend 18 months to train new a subject matter expert every three years is expensive.
The 18 months onboarding every three years (per each pod of five developers) was the average re-training cost on my teams before I mastered these (and a few other) techniques for managing creative engineering talent.
Edit: and for those who say “I’ve heard it takes less than 18 months” - yes, I know. I probably lied to you to protect my own job. Haha. The truth is important, but the full unvarnished truth is not more important to me than my collecting my next paycheck.