by Narada Rathnasooriya 4:48 AM 0 comments

5.06. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.

This closure is for the management of a software development company or a project. This closure says when you are attracting suitable software engineers to your project you should provide a full and accurate description of the conditions of employment. This is a really important closure that management should consider. Not only managers, developers also has the right to know the full description of their employment. Otherwise it may lead to some complications afterwords.

For an example lets take a scenario where a developer is hired by a company that makes games for foreign companies. An aspiring developer joins the company and he was told that the company is making novel good quality product. The developer who also has a passion in gaming and also wants develop something new joins the company. But after sometime he realizes though the company makes good games it is very rarely done. Most of the time they only make flash based games for client needs which are not that advanced. The developer was not expecting an environment like this.

Likewise in our project also this closure became very important to us. The project we did, web portal for the Rotaract Club of Faculty of Science, was basically project that I received because most of the people in the club were my friends. They also told me that they won’t be able to pay for the project which I was okay with because they can give recommendations to other people as they are working with a large community that has many potential clients and so on.

After listening to this I asked from my team members that we can do this project and also told them that there won’t be any straight forward financial benefits from the project. I also told their requirements and the deadline that they suggested and asked whether we should take it or not. Finally we agreed to take the project because we came in to consent that the recommendations that we get afterwards would be beneficial for us.

If I have not being truthful with my team members and told only about the project and not about the compensations there is a possibility of they expecting a one. Because I told the whole situation to them only we were able to come for a consent about the project. This closure is really important when it comes to hiring or involving other software engineers in a company or in a project because it ensures that there won’t be any complications down line of a development process due to the information not provided.