Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Applied To Software Engineering
Scott Sauber
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a model for understanding the motivations behind why people make the choices that they do. So how does this apply to software? In this Lean Bytes we’ll talk about how we can use Maslow’s, but apply it to software engineering to help us understand why software engineers write the code that they do at different points in their career.
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