Every product is about people.
Every product is about investors .
Investors are people
Software is about people, not code (2020)
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Re: Software is about people, not code (2020)
#12“Eventually I realised restaurants are about diners, not knives.”
More accurate to say restaurants are about people, not food. May be an apt analogy - chefs and cooks spend their time in the kitchen preparing food for a diner they don’t see.
Re: Software is about people, not code (2020)
#13Every product is about people.
Every product is about investors .
Not really, even with a venture backed company. The investors only care if they believe there will be paying customers, and at the end of the day those are people.
In many cases the customer and user are not the same (e.g. healthcare, Microsoft’s business, Google, et al)
Re: Software is about people, not code (2020)
#14Very weird title since it implies software is not about code which makes 0 sense. Yes, people skills are part of every profession but software jobs still hire based on how good your coding is primarily.
> software jobs still hire based on how good your coding is primarily
ehhh. In my experience, being able to code is a necessary but not sufficient skill for a software developer. The only exceptions I've seen is having some extremely deep expertise in a niche technical field (and even then I wouldn't call that being able to code well, so much as technical domain knowledge).
When I was hiring at AWS the view for my team (RDS) was that there wasn't much difference in expectations between algorithmic coding ability for juniors and seniors. The primary technical differentiator for seniors was architectural and operational. But even more important than those was the nontechnical stuff; mentorship, being able to communicate ideas clearly and succinctly (no point in being able to architect a system if you can't communicate it in a way people understand), interacting with other teams, demonstrating understanding customer and business value, etc.
Re: Software is about people, not code (2020)
#15How to make a people problem worse:
- Umbrellas are about people, not rain.
- But your umbrella will keep me dry, right?
- The materials, the shape, none of it is really important.
- I'm not sure what you mean. Give me some hard numbers. How much rainfall the fabric can take? Was it built with quality?
- At the end of the day, an umbrella is just a tool.
Re: Software is about people, not code (2020)
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#17When I was a developer I thought “without me all the people in the building have nothing to sell and they can all just go home”.
Then I spent a few years in sales (long story) and flipped 180 degrees. Without salespeople (and the customers they bring in) there would be nobody paying our salaries and we all could just go home.
Re: Software is about people, not code (2020)
#18When I was a developer I thought “without me all the people in the building have nothing to sell and they can all just go home”. Then I spent a few years in sales (long story) and flipped 180 degrees. Without salespeople (and the customers they bring in) there would be nobody paying our salaries and we all could just go home.
Two things can be true simultaneously. Neither function works without the other.
Re: Software is about people, not code (2020)
#19a truism but also not that interesting. why is this getting upvoted?