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If a project is "important" then it should have business value. For some developers (including me), working on projects with significant business value is the
by morgante 9y ago
If a project is "important" then it should have business value.
For some developers (including me), working on projects with significant business value is the definition of glamorous. Since there's significant business value, then you should be rewarding people for delivering that value (with bonuses and raises).
If the task does not have significant business value, it's probably not actually important. A lot of maintenance tasks actually fall in this bucket.
- BurningFrog 9y agoYeah, that's what I was getting at. I want to work on what's most important for the business and our users. Having engineers pick whatever they find fun to work on sounds broken, but I'm also interested in if and how that can be made to work.
- morgante 9y agoNot all engineers are driven by "fun." Some certainly are, but I know many who prefer to work on projects with tangible business value.