What I’m missing the most in TFA and this discussion (a few hints notwithstanding) is the importance of demographics compared to process. Programming is very m

What I’m missing the most in TFA and this discussion (a few hints notwithstanding) is the importance of demographics compared to process. Programming is very much a process thing, people much less so. Successful teams in programming (just like in sports and other human endeavours) seem to have the right mix of skills as well as of personalities. What the right mix is, varies by project - even within programming. In my own experience, even gender mix seemed correlated to team success - roughly 50/50 mixes seemed the best. And a distribution of leaders/followers, nerds/playboys/mothers/flirts/emos/rationals/heroes/pessimists etc. - depending on the project at hand. And team size matters - a lot (but that seems already better understood in programming circles).