Developer Incentives

2023-04-18

You call an incentive that rewards the opposite of its intent a perverse incentive. Rewarding QAs by the number of bugs submitted and Developers for the absence of bugs in their code might be one. In sales, you offer a commission on the sale. This aligns the incentives of the employee with the organization. I have yet to hear of an organization that rewards its developers based on the success of the product they produce. Most just reward performing a set of prescribed behaviors. What it might look like to ‘align the incentives of’ a developer with those of the organization they serve?

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Daniel Scheufler is a Principal Consultant at Improving with experience in ECommerce, TeleMedicine, and of course Oil and Gas. As an Electrical Engineer turned Software Developer, He prides himself on highly disciplined development leading to more effective products and processes. He is a problem-solver at heart and leverages this strength in applying industrial theory to the challenges of software development. Among the key challenges facing development is the communication gap.

So Daniel has taken to blogging, public speaking, and consulting to help bridge the gap and demystify the technology our world depends on. When not engaged in tackling the gap, or coding, you'll find Daniel playing with his three five children, reading, or tinkering whether in the woodshop or in a computer.

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