Report: Autonomy is important for developer happiness

At this time, Atlassian launched the 2022 State of the Developer report. The findings confirmed that half (50%) of builders surveyed are presently experiencing a powerful stage of autonomy on the subject of figuring out how they work, what they work on, and what instruments they’re utilizing. 

Of that fifty%, 87% stated they’re pleased with their day by day duties and tasks even supposing 81% of this group reported that their work is rising in complexity and 74% are context switching extra continuously.

Comparatively, solely 69% of builders experiencing reasonable autonomy and 50% with weak autonomy reported being content material with their present mixture of duties and tasks. 

The report additionally revealed that 33% of builders working extra autonomously take part in 4-6 services or products whereas solely 26% of builders with reasonable autonomy and 18% with low autonomy work on this variety of duties. 

Moreover, the report discovered that 59% of developer groups have taken a “you construct it, you run it (YBIYRI)” method. 

In line with the report, the longer a group works on this means, the extra probably they’re to imagine that they’re the perfect individuals to run the product.

Established YBIYRI groups are additionally extra prone to really feel that they need to be taking over much more duty for the merchandise they construct. 68% of this group agreed that their tasks ought to be elevated additional.

YBIYRI groups additionally reported a rise in full stack (36%), entrance finish (35%), and cloud or server engineers (34%) on their groups.

74% of these surveyed additionally stated that the flexibility to learn code written by different builders is important and 51% stated that they’re primarily assembling code that was not written by them.

The report additionally revealed that whereas 65% of builders really feel that writing new code is a very powerful talent within the position, 58% stated that writing new code won’t be required as part of their position sooner or later. 

Lastly, 69% of builders surveyed reported a rise within the variety of instruments that they’re utilizing to finish their duties, and 61% reported that they’re presently utilizing upwards of 6 completely different instruments. 

The complete report is out there now and may be accessed right here.