Software Engineers Do So Much More Than Write Code

This is a great post by Dave Rupert on how much more there is to software development than just writing lines of code. His non-exhaustive list is 31 items long.

I tend to measure myself or view work productivity through the lens of “How much code did I write?” and that does a great disservice to myself and what I do.

I've had jobs before that have measured developer productivity by things like number of PRs merged or number of screens created. And it's easy to get caught up in that sometimes, and feel like you've not done much because you haven't written as much code as you think you should have. This is a good post to come back to when I need to feel better about not having written a lot of code recently.

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