Developers should be growing to become bridges between business and technology. Businesses rarely have technology problems. They have business needs that technology might help solve. Even though most businesses are becoming software businesses regardless of industry, it's from the perspective of managing the details of their business.
Learning and delivering strategy is far more valuable than just tactics (latest hip language/framework/stack), because a solution doesn't exist just in programming alone, but a combination with policy and process.
As you grow, you can become a strategic aligner that is not dishonest about using the latest toy at the expense of your customer's growth.
I'm in my early 30's, developed professionally for over 15 years.
The one thing I see over and over now is how secondary development starts appearing the more I interface with upper level management directly. There is a major starvation for developers who can learn to understand a problem and leveraging a solution to magnify competitive advantage.
I spend more time thinking and analyzing the problems (way more) before ever daring to trivialize something to whip up some code.
This ends up with my development work being tremendously more valued, instead of just being a means to an ends. As I get older, the value I add is not just coding, but being able to architect a solution that
Learning and delivering strategy is far more valuable than just tactics (latest hip language/framework/stack), because a solution doesn't exist just in programming alone, but a combination with policy and process.
As you grow, you can become a strategic aligner that is not dishonest about using the latest toy at the expense of your customer's growth.
I'm in my early 30's, developed professionally for over 15 years.
The one thing I see over and over now is how secondary development starts appearing the more I interface with upper level management directly. There is a major starvation for developers who can learn to understand a problem and leveraging a solution to magnify competitive advantage.
I spend more time thinking and analyzing the problems (way more) before ever daring to trivialize something to whip up some code.
This ends up with my development work being tremendously more valued, instead of just being a means to an ends. As I get older, the value I add is not just coding, but being able to architect a solution that