Software Management-Related Essays

if you’re an employer in 2007 who wishes to attract and keep great developers, you’d better get one thing straight: give them exceptional treatment and conditions.

a subsequent article, with many lessons learned from the “End of IT Slavery”, which retrospectively seemed too cynical and demanding. In this article, I try to explain, based on the many resources I’ve read and my own experience, how an employer should structure their work-place to attract great programmers, keep them and allow them to flourish.