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Jacques Van Niekerk Presentation on IWMC 2015
The document discusses comparisons between developers in different countries. It provides perspectives from developers in countries like Australia, Poland, Switzerland, South Africa, Brazil, India, and Singapore on how they compare themselves to the best developers worldwide. Key points included scarcity of developers, cost, focus on innovation, skills, teamwork, and reasons for developers to stay or leave their home countries. The document also discusses factors to consider when comparing technology, people, processes, software architecture and infrastructure between companies and countries.
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- 1. In Comparison 3rd IranWeb and Mobile Conference International exhibition center of university of Shahid Beheshti In Comparison
- 2. Why me ? 3rdIran Web and Mobile Conference In Compar International exhibition center of university of Shahid Beheshti Jacques van Niekerk @ Rosewood Due Diligence
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- 10. What do THEYthink ?
- 11. How would youdescribe developers in your own country in 10 or fewer words ? How do you think developers in your country compare to the best in the world ?
- 12. Australia Expensive, perfectionists, edge,snobs, scarce, arrogant (sometimes), leaving. “Very good in the main. They stay focused on latest tech and love all the new platforms that are emerging. Very scarce so hard to find at a decent price. We tend to scale out of Australia for this reason.”
- 13. Poland hardworking, innovative, courageous,enterprising, open-minded, communicative, team players, clever early-adopters, good mathematical and physical background, particularly strong in algorithmics “They are in TOP 5 countries in algorithms. Polish IT market is more than enough to satisfy needs of best performers - 70% IT guys prefer to stay in Poland” “As we can see in different competitions polish developers are world class. That's why there are a lot of polish developers in companies such as Google, Apple or Facebook”
- 14. Switzerland qualitative, expensive, organized,correct, long term thinking, low-maintenance- code-writer, well engineered, high educated “security/quality in multiple dimensions first, innovation and speed second.”
- 15. Passionate, hard working,and they love their careers. Scarce, conscientious, one-language passion, corporate, career-oriented, make it work. “SA developers don't stand back when competing on the world stage. They are open to opportunities and are keen to go and learn and come back.” “Methodical but not always innovative. Like to learn, but often lacking an academic background.” South Africa
- 16. Brazil creative, expensive, opinionated,team players, hard workers, conference goers, trend followers “Developers in Brazil are fast at adopting new standards, and passionate about being cutting edge. They are more creative than average, and more expensive too.”
- 17. India Academic, usually goodin algorithms/mathematical concepts, Innovative (Incrementally) but also tailored to taking instructions, normally sticks to timeline given, code quality not a high priority, system fundamentals not too strong, normally seen lacking focus. “ The difference is in approach to solve a problem. The best of programmers dares to discard their academic training and takes total new untested and weird routes..resulting in new concepts/innovations. This is lacking for most programmers in India”
- 18. Singapore need instructions, expensive,scarce, sincere and focused, strong in fundamentals, academic “Although there is a fair degree of innovative approaches..its mostly incremental. Most stick to tried and tested approaches.”
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- 20. #Scarce means ● competition forskills ● money’s worth ? ● plenty of jobs
- 21. #Cost means ● hard toretain ● overpriced ● valuable
- 22. #Innovation means ● flexible ● outof the box ● build on what they were taught ● problem solving
- 23. #Skill means ● what wewere taught ● how we use what we were taught ● efficiency ● practical
- 24. #Stay means ● benefits thecountry ● leave, but come back ● less scarcity ● build
- 25. #Team means ● support ● efficiencies ●knowledge sharing ● sum ++
- 26. #thewheel Not built here. Wecan do it better. Please don’t.
- 28. What can wecompare ? ● Type of product ● People ● Technology How objective can we be ?
- 29. What I lookat Tech Assessments ● People ● Technology ● Process ● Software Architecture ● Infrastructure (Workshop this afternoon)
- 30. People ● Skill ● Communication ●Passion ● Teachability ● Real programmers
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- 33. Technology ● Fit forpurpose ● Supports growth goals ● Attractive ● Proven ● Maintainable
- 35. Process ● Agile ? ●What kind of company is this ? ● Supporting tools
- 36. Software Architecture ● Scalable ●Economies of scope/scale ● Documented ● Suitable
- 37. Infrastructure ● Cost ● Resilience ●Scalability ● Maintenance
- 39. People ● Technically strong ●Technologically savvy ● Innovative ● Can do ● WANT to learn ● Passion - most definitely (Topcoder.com - 9th, worldwide)
- 40. ● Sometimes supportgrowth goals ● Proven - yes ● Maintainable - mostly ● Attractive - judge for yourself Technology
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- 44. Process ● Agile andKanban in startups. ● High awareness ● Mostly technology driven ● Supporting tools … sometimes
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- 46. Software/Architecture ● Cost ofScaling ? ● Transportable ? ● Ready for the world ?
- 47. To your advantage ●Large potential market ● Roadmaps from established markets ● ‘Greenfields’ ● Local knowledge (NB)
- 48. Iran - typicalissues - 1 ● Lack of documentation ● No hardware redundancy ● No QA process ● Planning to refactor
- 49. Iran - typicalissues - 2 ● Security ● Performance! ● Monitoring ● Actively think about architecture!
- 50. Comparative Notes ● Scarce- as everywhere else ● Leaving ● Little concern for security ● Architecture as it happens (but true for many startups) ● Little documentation ● Sometimes have to reinvent the wheel ● Acknowledge the worth of local knowledge
- 51. What does thefuture hold ? IEEE - 2015 trends ● Hardware - wearables, IoT, 3D Printing ● Security ● SDx ● Augmented Reality ● Predictive Analytics http://www.computer.org/web/pressroom/2015-tech-trends
- 52. How will youcompare in 2020 ? 3rd Iran Web and Mobile Conference International exhibition center of university of Shahid Beheshti In Comparison
- 53. سپاسگزارم! Thanks! Jacques van Niekerk RosewoodDue Diligence Partner Twitter: @gustible LinkedIn:jacquesvn.com Web: rosewoodd.com