Software developers are now more valuable to companies than money: Survey
Summary
A recent study from Stripe and Harris Poll found that 61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to developer talent is a threat to the success of their business.Collectively, companies today lose upward of $300 billion a year paying down "technical debt," as developers pour time into maintaining legacy systems or dealing with the ramifications of bad software.Software developers dont have a monopoly on good ideas, but their skill set makes them a uniquely deep source of innovation, productivity and new economic connections.When deployed correctly, developers can be economic multipliers — coefficients that dramatically ratchet up the output of the teams and companies of which theyre a part.As digital transformation remains top of mind for every company, its critical to empower developers with the tools, infrastructure and guidance to move more quickly.