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> Professional talent does vary, but there is not a shred of evidence that the best professional developers are an order of magnitude more productive than media
by ExpiredLink 12y ago
> Professional talent does vary, but there is not a shred of evidence that the best professional developers are an order of magnitude more productive than median developers at any timescale, much less on a meaningful timescale such as that of a product release cycle. There is abundant evidence that this is not the case
http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2011/12/09/forbes-is-wrong-about-developernomics/ http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2011/12/09/forbes-is-wrong-...
> The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheMythOfTheRockstarProgrammer.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheMythOfTheRockstarProgrammer...
- spacecowboy_lon 12y agoDepends on the suitation when I worled for BT another devloper and I developed in a month in a RAD/DSDM web project project what another part of the biz had quoted 2 years to develop. But we did have a depty CEO (Bruce Bond) as a sponsor so stuff got done quickly. I reccon in my entire period working at BT that month was most prodcutive - and thats including the time I spent a coupel of days sorting out a BACS trasfer that netted 3/4 mill.
- ExpiredLink 12y ago> Fact and folklore in software engineering http://morendil.github.io/folklore.html http://morendil.github.io/folklore.html > 10x Engineer http://web.archive.org/web/20131110050028/https://medium.com/about-work/6aedba30ecfe http://web.archive.org/web/20131110050028/https://medium.com...
- OpenDrapery 12y agoEvery place I've worked at, there have been obvious examples of the one guy that management would sacrifice 2-3 other people in order to keep.