Where does the developer sit?

There’s a take going around that developers are treated as profit centers, but they are just highly paid cost centers. I don’t know if this is always true. It is all a matter of framing.

High-performing cost center

On the one hand, developer efficiency is a point of pride. The company does want you to get more done with less. Developers don’t have direct revenue attribution, and dev teams sure do spend a lot of money. When you design scalable systems, you are “doing ...