mobcode

Operational responsibilities are good

If a developer stays on a project long enough they will inevitably be pulled into operations. Not only do they write the code, but they help make it run in production. This is a good thing. It is not necessarily glamorous, but it is good.

• It makes a developer better because they experience the impact of their coding-time decisions.

• It makes a developer more valuable because taking a new feature all the way through to production is more valuable than simply writing the code and leaving it for someone else to make work.

• It secures a developer’s position on the team because keeping the system running is a more fundamental need than writing new code.