The Developer’s Choice
Explore the differing perspectives on a developer's role as a profit center or cost center within a company. Learn how management views these positions and how you can strategically align your work to contribute measurable business value. Understand ways to succeed regardless of your role's classification and the importance of recognizing team contributions.
Where does the developer sit?
There’s a take going around that developers are treated as profit centers, but they are just highly paid cost centers. I don’t know if this is always true. It is all a matter of framing.
High-performing cost center
On the one hand, developer efficiency is a point of pride. The company does want you to get more done with less. Developers don’t have direct revenue attribution, and dev teams sure do spend a lot of money. When you design scalable systems, you are “doing more with less.” Hopefully, ...