Development Managers
Reward your developers by giving them a new way to communicate, and give yourself
peace of mind.
Development managers have a different set of challenges. Keeping projects on schedule
and within budget while maintaining resources and enforcing standards isn't an easy
task. All the while, delivering a quality product and keeping you teams skills current.
Snippet Garden can help.
Reward key resources
Who are your key players? That is, which developers in your organization make the
biggest contributions. It isn't always lines of code written that determines your
best people. Many times, it is those who put the keyboard away and share thier
knowledge with others that have the largest impact on the bottom line. Do you have
a method of measuring that type of contribution? Snippet Garden makes this easy.
Turnover
Are you afraid of burnout for key resources?
Developers leave jobs for a variety of reasons. You can't always offer them the
salary they want, but you can make their experience in your organization better.
Key developers create and drive the coding standards of each company. When a key
resource leaves, the impact is felt for a very long time. The process of harvesting
your code snippets, samples of best practices and development patterns helps each
organization bridge the gap when these key resource leave the organization.
Contractors and other temporary resources
Some of the best developers in the world are contractors. If you've grown to rely
on them as key members of your team, you might be missing an opportunity. Once they
are done with your assignment, they take their knowledge and experience with them.
Do you have a way to keep this experience and build on it with the team that remains?
Mobility
Over time, developers accumulate a wealth of knowledge on each specific project
to which they are assigned. You want to be able to move your key developers to new
projects without letting this valuable information go to waste.
Skill improvement
Each person in your team learns differently - some pick up new items quickly while
others take a more methodical approach. All developers have one thing in common
- we all learn by writing, testing, and observing the results from small programs.
Snippets are a key element in learning for developers. Show them that you are
interested in more than just finishing projects - that you're willing to invest in them as well.