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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: Motivation Jacquers16-Aug-21 23:14 Jacquers 16-Aug-21 23:14  Action creates motivation I understand how difficult it can be, but getting started is often the hardest part. Once you get started the motivation to get whatever you're busy with working correctly can become the motivation. Other ... Amarnath S15-Aug-21 20:15 Amarnath S 15-Aug-21 20:15  No micromanagement Re: Other ... Mathew Crothers15-Aug-21 20:18 Mathew Crothers 15-Aug-21 20:18  No politics either. Re: Other ... Ralf Meier15-Aug-21 23:30 Ralf Meier 15-Aug-21 23:30  ... and no actionism ... (I hope this word is right translated ...) Re: Other ... Daniel Pfeffer16-Aug-21 4:35 Daniel Pfeffer 16-Aug-21 4:35  I think that the word you are looking for is activism, but either way you are right. The amount of cr@p demanded by certain online tools, open-source projects, etc. (they know who they are... ) is astounding. How are we evil developers supposed to build our Evil Empires without a little evil help? :insane cackle: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W. 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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