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How does Developer Morale Affect My Software Supply Chain?

Most leaders know that happier employees can mean improved retention, which means less money chasing, hiring, and training new talent. As such, most companies see a clear connection between improved employee morale and business outcomes.

However, as more and more organizations are not just producing software but relying on software tools for growth, developer performance has a major influence on your company. What can we say about the morale of software developers?

Now in our 8th year, Sonatype’s annual reports look at the software supply chain, including developer involvement. In this pursuit, we considered the influences and outcomes of developer job satisfaction. Today we look back on some of the insights and conclusions from our research. 

Better development maturity can mean happy devs

Our most recent report found that developers prefer working inside a more mature development environment. This is defined by a variety of features, including quality governance, open source component selection, giving back to the community, and more. Groups that had more of these features also carried higher job satisfaction.

Developers in this space reported a 2.7x increase in job satisfaction and 2x more likely to recommend their organization to their peers (source).

While it’s possible that already contented developers may have pushed software maturity in a better direction, it’s clear that management has ways to improve both overall performance and morale.

Read the full report.

Bar graph detailing the status of job satisfaction versus issues like application inventory, project consumption, giving back, policy control, and more.

The impact of dependency hell

Dependency management is also an important part of developer morale. Our 2021 report addressed this as a key issue in open source development practices. Even though most developers fully recognize the importance of keeping software components up to date, the task is dull and unwelcome. The frustration is so common, it’s often referred to as “dependency hell.”

As a result, (Read more...)

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Sonatype Blog authored by Luke Mcbride. Read the original post at: https://blog.sonatype.com/how-developer-morale-affects-software-supply-chain