You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)
I&#x27;ve been looking into this subject lately as I am now moving into management positions and attempting to figure out the best way to do so.<p>Software Developers, let&#x27;s say I gave you a problem, and that problem was currently being solved with an O(n^2) algorithm, and it turns out that problem was taking up 50+% of your cycles, and because of how it was solved there is hard-coupling that disallowed better approaches, and that you can resolve this problem into an O(1) algorithm?<p>Would you want to hear about that algorithm? Because it&#x27;s called communication.<p>The model I now think of Development teams is that you have Developers at the center, and then everyone else are teachers assisting them. A UX Designer is there not to create the UI but to teach the Developer how to go about creating the UI. He will start by creating designs, but he will allow the developer to make their own mistakes and eventually the Developer will become a Master UX Designer in his own right. This is true of every element of the Software Development LifeCycle. From technical to designing the product itself.<p>Once you have a Developer that understands Databases, understands Backend, Frontend, CSS, UX, understands the Product, works with the Users and dog-foods his own product, you will find the amount of time that it takes to get a superior product will drop massively. The example I like to give here is that Linus Torvalds created git in 10 days because he was a master user of Source Control and knew exactly what he needed, while Microsoft&#x27;s Source Control team had worked with hundreds of developers over years and couldn&#x27;t compete. When you have hundreds working on a project the ability to communicate in a depth-first-search style drops to 0, and you are left to only breadth-first-search solutions. Metcalfe&#x27;s Law destroys productivity.<p>Meta about the article: I think it&#x27;s moving forwards but it&#x27;s got so much going on it&#x27;s hard to pay attention to any single point.