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Optimize for Developer Happiness

Optimize for Developer Happiness

Why how you work is as important as what you work on

Ben Balter

April 26, 2016
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  1. ! Optimize for developer happiness Why how you work is

    as important as what you work on @benbalter
  2. CONWAY'S LAW "organizations which design systems... are constrained to produce

    designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations"
  3. ! Open source is a 
 PHILOSOPHY AND A WORKFLOW

    
 not as an alternative technology
  4. ! Friction (n) 
 the time it takes to go

    from 
 "I want to contribute" to 
 "I have contributed"
  5. ! Open source, inner source, APIs, & open data all


    foster communities around shared challenges
  6. ! Optimize for developer happiness Why how you work is

    as important as what you work on @benbalter