Your value as a developer goes beyond your technical acumen. Make yourself indispensable by learning your industry and your product.
by Eric McMullen
April 17, 2006
ood programmers are what make a software company. Not just good programmers, mind you, they have to be great hackers, rock stars, the best. Great hackers are three times, five times, maybe even 10 times more productive than the merely average.
At least that's the common wisdom. Joel Spolsky founded a software company based on hiring the best programmers; Martin Fowler regularly blogs about hiring "the very top fraction of software developers" for his company ThoughtWorks; and Paul Graham—a blogger, painter, entrepreneur, and LISP hacker— loves to write about what makes "great hackers."
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Eric McMullen is a director at Falstaff Solutions, a Denver-based consulting house which specializes in data-centric .NET applications. Check out Falstaff's Web site at www.falstaffsolutions.com.
ood programmers are what make a software company. Not just good programmers, mind you, they have to be great hackers, rock stars, the best. Great hackers are three times, five times, maybe even 10 times more productive than the merely average.
