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Nine things developers want more than money


This is a little bit older, but pretty interesting: Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money.

It should be inherently obvious, but seeing lists like this every once in a while is a good reminder that creating and maintaining high-performing teams is clearly more about people than it is about process, technology, or anything else.

This entry was posted by Scott Vlaminck on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 8:55 am and is filed under Business, Software Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. Brent said...
    10. Competent, ego-less peers. Surprised that’s not in there. Hard to enjoy your job if you work with a bunch of idiots or holier-than-thou employees. It’s amazing how just a few bad apples can spoil the bunch.

  2. andhapp said...
    I glanced at the article and to start with it is extremely long and seems like an attempt to regurgitate the motivational theories of Herzberg, Maslow and others…Satisfaction is a subjective term and it cannot be generalised…

    and also this form does not render properly in firefox 3.

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