Mark Pearl

What Software Developers Do

I recently had a discussion where the comment was made that a group of software developers didn’t have time to do any real work because they were busy in a retrospective. I’m concerned that a common perception by business people is that developing software involves 95% typing - this is a misconception. Good software developers do so much more.

What developing software involves


Weightings to Create Word Cloud

Here is my own list, feel free to add to the comments section additional tasks.

Re-factoring:30
Coding:20
Understanding-Requirements:20
Automating:10
Testing:30
Learning:40
Fixing-Bugs:10
Collaborating:30
Reading:15
TDD:20
Designing:25
Software-Architecture:15
Requirement-Analysis:15
Speaking-To-Users:10
Code-Reviews:12
Retrospectives:10
Stand-ups:10
Pair-Programming:25
Code-Reviews:20

References




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