What makes a great developer?
Last Thursday, I attended the Business Insider StartUp 2013 Conference, http://www.businessinsider.com/event/startup2013
I attended a class run by Peter Bell titled, Outsourcing and Managing Software Development. It was extremely insightful and I wanted to share some notes around the question: What makes a great developer?
3 Ps- Programming, Professionalism, Product
1) Programming– hardest to determine, give the developer a project to work on, like a bug tracking system, pay them $1,500 to see how you’d interact with them before making a fulltime offer
2) Professionalism– meaning a professional developer should do the following:
A) Test Driven Development-
B) Unit Test
C) Break project into working code
D) Have a GitHub account
4) Product– they should have a really good sense of the product and understand it, what problems are you solving
Thanks Peter for the insight and I hope that other people use your 3 P approach to identifying talent.
