{"id":3720,"date":"2012-04-20T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2012-04-20T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:33:53","slug":"bjarne-stroustrup-on-corporate-programming-things-are-getting-better-new-kingmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/bjarne-stroustrup-on-corporate-programming-things-are-getting-better-new-kingmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bjarne Stroustrup on Corporate Programming. Things Are Getting Better. New Kingmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Corporate programming is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate &#8216;culture&#8217; with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.research.att.com\/~bs\/\">Bjarne Stroustrup<\/a>, the Father of C++<\/p>\n<p>Another Robert Brook share. I think things are getting better for developers &#8211; or as we think of them at RedMonk &#8211; the Talent. If great engineers get treated like shit they can find a new gig. In the age of Github, open source, and the ongoing war for talent, opportunities have never been better. If you&#8217;re in an abusive relationship with your employer its time to make a clean break. If you&#8217;re a corporate IT shop get wise- the most important role you play today is talent management. <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2010\/09\/09\/the-new-kingmakers\/\">Developers are the new Kingmakers<\/a>. If you can&#8217;t keep your developer talent onside you&#8217;re not going to get decent business results and outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Related: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2012\/04\/18\/technology-adoption-secret\">The Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma and the Folly of Keeping Technology Adoption Secret<\/a>, See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2007\/01\/04\/on-jon-udell-freedom-talent-management-and-the-new-patronage-economy\/\">The New Patronage Economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Corporate programming is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate &#8216;culture&#8217; with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.&#8221; Bjarne Stroustrup, the Father<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-Y0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}