What makes a Great Developer?

WHAT MAKES A GREAT DEVELOPER?



Last Thursday, I attended the Business Insider StartUp 2013 Conference,




I attended a class run by Peter Bell titled, Outsourcing and Managing Software Development.It was extremely insightful and I wanted to share some notes around the question: What makes a great developer?



3 PS- PROGRAMMING, PROFESSIONALISM, PRODUCT



1)PROGRAMMING- hardest to determine, give the developer a project to work on, like a bug tracking system, pay them $1,500 to see how you'd interact with them before making a fulltime offer



2) PROFESSIONALISM- meaning a professional developer should do the following:



A)Test Driven Development-



B)Unit Test



C)Break project into working code



D)Have a GitHub account



4)PRODUCT- they should have a really good sense of the product and understand it, what problems are you solving



Thanks Peter for the insight and I hope that other people use your 3 P approach to identifying talent.
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