Developer Productivity – Page 3 – Get[Devs] Hire Developers

FAQ on Staff Augmentation, Hiring Developers & More

We know that Staff Augmentation takes a bit of getting used to as a concept. It is so much more than outsourcing your development team or hiring developers and other IT professionals at a cost effective offshore office. It is about having the most qualified developers and co-managing their employment so you can have the best of both worlds: a great development team without the employee hassles. Here are some of the most asked questions and their answers: Read More

How to Get Your Developers to Un-hate You: 10 Things Top Project Managers Do Right

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Maybe it’s the way of the world, but managers are among the people we generally love to hate, or as we say in our town: jerks.

Developers, on the other hand, tend to think the world revolves around them. A big brain tends to carry a big ego, after all. Read More

8 Secrets To Retaining and Motivating Developers

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A lot of software companies seem to have accepted that developers always jump ship every couple of years, sometimes even every couple of months. Well, we at Get[Devs] won’t stand for this.

Surprisingly, keeping developers happy, productive and – most importantly – in your employ isn’t that hard. Here are a few things that we did to keep our best developers around for our clients. Read More

What Makes Developers Tick: 7 Tips to Fuel Developer Productivity

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As developers who do tons of brainwork, we are pretty smart. We like to think of ourselves as superheroes whose main power is not just building applications but building awesome apps!

But here’s the catch: our job isn’t really all about creating cool stuff. The truth is, we solve hard problems on a daily basis. We find and fix bugs 75% of the time, which kills any chance of shipping code on schedule. But hey, we’ll work overtime and through holidays to fix it anyways. But doing that really kills our motivation and we really only do our best work when we’re motivated. Read More

Why You Should Hire QA Staff to Test Your Software Apps

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Not sure whether you should hire a QA team to test your software? You’re not alone. While there is no doubt that software testing in the development process is important super important, there are a lot of strong and compelling arguments against delegating the role quality assurance testing to a separate QA team. Read More