What engineers and developers really do all day and why it's a really big deal.

1. What Engineers &
Developers
Do All Day
Really
And why it’s a really big deal

2. *Design prototype by Stephen Allport
most people think engineers
spend all of their time
cool stuff
creating

3. Wrong!!X

4. building products full of awesome
doesn’t happen like this

5. we have to find and fix
100
per 1,000 lines of code
product bugs
(that’s a lot)

6. 15
bugs per 1,000 lines of
code make it to customers
(that’s bad)

7. it takes 30x longer to fix
one bug than to write
one line of code

8. we spend 75% of our time
debugging
our own (and our teammates’) designs

9. that’s
1500 hoursper year
fixing
bugs

10. not creating cool stuff but
solving problemshard problems

11. that means 75%
of your engineering
to fixing bugs
team salary goes

12. add up 75% of all product
engineering salaries in the US
plus the cost of their debug tools

13. $113 billion
identifying & correcting product defects
in the US,
is spent every year

14. let’s put
$113 billioninto context

15. with $113 billion, you could
end world hunger $30B
and buy
$30B $10B $4B $4B $4B
$4B $3.3B $2.5B $2B $2B
and still have $17B left

16. if there were ways to debug
faster, more of that $113
billion could go toward
making new, cool stuff

17. every year our products get
smarter, more connected, more complex

18. more complex
is a nice way of saying
“has a lot more bugs to
fix before it ships”

19. if we can’t fix all of the bugs on time,
schedules slip and our products are
late-to-market

20. shipping your product late
costs you a lotof money
https://www.initialstate.com/LateCalc
here’s a calculator to
show you how much

21. #1 cause for schedule slips?
too many bugs,
too little time

22. forcing us to work weekends
and overtime won’t fix this
productivity plunges

23. when you ask us to do the
impossible(which you inevitably will)

24. here are five tips
if you want to have any chance
of success

25. we need multiple hours of
uninterrupted time
preferably in 4-hour blocks
1

26. putting us in a bunch of meetings is a
great way for us to get nothing done
2

27. give us the freedom
to be awesome
don't micromanage
3

28. buy us the tools we need
you don’t mow a lawn with a pair of scissors
4

29. give us an awesome place to work
we spend a lot of time here, we should love it
5

30. what do engineers and developers
really do all day?

31. we solve problems

32. https://www.initialstate.com
tools built for engineers, by engineers