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What makes you the most productive as a Developer?

Survey period: 16 Aug 2021 to 23 Aug 2021

Small things can make a big difference.

Option	Votes	%
A fast, powerful machine	328	42.16
Solid chunks of uninterrupted time to work	616	79.18
Clear directions, specs, thoughts, ideas. Just point me in the right direction!	487	62.60
A good office setup: good chair, enough monitor real estate, endless caffeine	258	33.16
A good team to work with	275	35.35
Training. As much as I need	118	15.17
Good, supported tools (IDEs, components, bug tracking, DevOps etc)	343	44.09
IT support. The more I have to work on the OS, DB, tools, deploy etc, the less I get done	105	13.50
An occasional thank you	253	32.52
Other	27	3.47
Responses	778
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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Re: Other ... 11917640 Member 16-Aug-21 3:05 11917640 Member 16-Aug-21 3:05  ... and no Agile ... Re: Other ... Greg Utas16-Aug-21 7:49 Greg Utas 16-Aug-21 7:49  I wouldn't crap on Agile specifically, but on any process that doesn't have fairly low overhead. Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Re: Other ... Greg Utas16-Aug-21 7:57 Greg Utas 16-Aug-21 7:57  I didn't even check off being pointed in the right direction, because I usually felt that I should decide what to work on. Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

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