Technocratic: CTO Insights from 20 years in the Trenches

Technocratic: CTO Insights from 20 years in the Trenches

The Economics of a Dev Team

Looking at Your Dev Team from an Economic Lens

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Bobby Tahir
Aug 26, 2025
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The Economic Lens

Most executives look at their development teams in one of two ways:

  • either as a cost center that burns money and needs to be kept lean,

  • or as an innovation engine that cranks out the next big thing.

Both frames contain some truth…but they’re incomplete.

A 3rd powerful lens is to view a dev team as a micro-economy.

Like any economy, it has sc…

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