What Engineers & Developers Do All Day Really And why its a really big deal

*Design prototype by Stephen Allport most people think engineers spend all of their time cool stuff creating

Wrong!!X

building products full of awesome doesnt happen like this

we have to find and fix 100 per 1,000 lines of code product bugs (thats a lot)

15 bugs per 1,000 lines of code make it to customers (thats bad)

it takes 30x longer to fix one bug than to write one line of code

we spend 75% of our time debugging our own (and our teammates) designs

thats 1500 hoursper year fixing bugs

not creating cool stuff but solving problemshard problems

that means 75% of your engineering to fixing bugs team salary goes

add up 75% of all product engineering salaries in the US plus the cost of their debug tools

$113 billion identifying & correcting product defects in the US, is spent every year

lets put $113 billioninto context

with $113 billion, you could end world hunger $30B and buy $30B $10B $4B $4B $4B $4B $3.3B $2.5B $2B $2B and still have $17B left

if there were ways to debug faster, more of that $113 billion could go toward making new, cool stuff

every year our products get smarter, more connected, more complex

more complex is a nice way of saying has a lot more bugs to fix before it ships

if we cant fix all of the bugs on time, schedules slip and our products are late-to-market

shipping your product late costs you a lotof money https://www.initialstate.com/LateCalc heres a calculator to show you how much

#1 cause for schedule slips? too many bugs, too little time

forcing us to work weekends and overtime wont fix this productivity plunges

when you ask us to do the impossible(which you inevitably will)

here are five tips if you want to have any chance of success

we need multiple hours of uninterrupted time preferably in 4-hour blocks 1

putting us in a bunch of meetings is a great way for us to get nothing done 2

give us the freedom to be awesome don't micromanage 3

buy us the tools we need you dont mow a lawn with a pair of scissors 4

give us an awesome place to work we spend a lot of time here, we should love it 5

what do engineers and developers really do all day?

we solve problems

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