Programmer Moneyball: Challenging the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity
A pervasive belief in the field of software engineering is that some programmers are much, much better than others (the times-10, or x10, programmer), and that the skills...
Programmer Moneyball: Challenging the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity Bill Nichols January 27, 2020 PUBLISHED IN Enterprise Risk and Resilience Management CITE Get Citation TAGS Measurement and Analysis Software Quality SHARE This post has been shared 2 times. A pervasive belief in the field of software engineering is that some programmers are much, much better than others (the times-10, or x10, programmer), and that the skills, abilities, and talents of these programmers exert an outsized influence on that organization's success or failure. This topic is the subject of my recent co
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