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"scrum" I found your issue. I don't think 10x developers work in places that do "scrum", as if they are some low skill assembly line worker. You think Jeff Dean

• phil21 9y ago
  I was also giggling at that as well. Missing the forest through the trees. No, the guy would be doing the entire project. I've worked with "10x" programmers before, exactly one to be exact. The sort of guy who would code to an obviously-wrong spec just to annoy you as a manager, but have the "correct" implementation done and waiting to commit the second you'd amend it. It was an interesting time, and we got a lot done very rapidly. If I had talked about scrum or anything like that'd he'd take one of the other 50 job offers he could get within 24 hours making double - he worked with me because I made his life as easy as possible while trying to give him interesting work. Of course it's not sustainable business-wise for a myriad of reasons. You can't staff a team with those people, but man was he nice to have as programmer #1 in a startup.
• flukus 9y ago
  So 10x programmers don't work anywhere with a somewhat objective performance metric? I don't think that's a coincidence.
  • TeMPOraL 9y ago
    No. Rather, they avoid places which employ procedures designed to get consistent output out of mediocre workers. Such processes naturally exchange flexibility for consistency of results, but lack of flexibility will cripple a 10x programmer.