<story><title>You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)</title><url>https://iism.org/article/you-need-software-developers-to-believe-in-your-project-45</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LordN00b</author><text>As a dev in a business environment, I don&amp;#x27;t care about your project. At all.
It&amp;#x27;s going to be run-of-the-mill business app, storage, front-end, logic. There will be nothing exciting or interesting for me whatsoever. I don&amp;#x27;t care about your case management, insurance leads, or Teams Governance. Becuase I&amp;#x27;m a human with human interests (writing code, and dreaming of a decent Transformers movie before I die), your projects are not interesting, and they will not invest me.&lt;p&gt;However for every project I take on, there will always be something I have never done before, or a maybe some new technique I want to try, could be a new language. That&amp;#x27;s where the engagement comes from.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t care about the project, I care about writing code (and exploring writing code) to the best of my ability (and to the best of the project constraints).&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;ve done my job well, that means I learned something new&amp;#x2F;had fun and the project will never burn my screen pixels ever again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnh44</author><text>One of the first bits of paid work I did was for a printing company that made business cards among lots of other things. They would manually create a CorelDraw document with a page full of cards for each employee, taking the contact information from an excel spreadsheet. The data entry for making cards for 100 people would take several days.&lt;p&gt;I was able to automate this for them with a pretty simple VB.net script. Several days of boring mind-numbing work per month were reduced to a couple button clicks and a few seconds of CPU time. It also eliminated all typographical errors on the part of the printing company.&lt;p&gt;I never touched vb.net again after that. I had no interest in the technology at all and there was nothing particularly interesting about the work itself. However saving people from having to do a bunch of boring work is extremely satisfying. And it saved the owner money which feels great too.&lt;p&gt;I find that being empathic towards my users not only makes the work more fulfilling but it also allows me to design better products. As a human with human interests you should at least give it a try.</text></comment>
<story><title>You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)</title><url>https://iism.org/article/you-need-software-developers-to-believe-in-your-project-45</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LordN00b</author><text>As a dev in a business environment, I don&amp;#x27;t care about your project. At all.
It&amp;#x27;s going to be run-of-the-mill business app, storage, front-end, logic. There will be nothing exciting or interesting for me whatsoever. I don&amp;#x27;t care about your case management, insurance leads, or Teams Governance. Becuase I&amp;#x27;m a human with human interests (writing code, and dreaming of a decent Transformers movie before I die), your projects are not interesting, and they will not invest me.&lt;p&gt;However for every project I take on, there will always be something I have never done before, or a maybe some new technique I want to try, could be a new language. That&amp;#x27;s where the engagement comes from.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t care about the project, I care about writing code (and exploring writing code) to the best of my ability (and to the best of the project constraints).&lt;p&gt;If I&amp;#x27;ve done my job well, that means I learned something new&amp;#x2F;had fun and the project will never burn my screen pixels ever again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnorthrop</author><text>No matter your technical proficiency, you are a lousy hire. I do not want a developer that is solely interested in work that improves their skills. These projects contribute to the success of the business in one way or another. If you are not invested in understanding why that project is funded and what it will accomplish you will not do the job as well as someone who is engaged and only has half your skills.</text></comment>