Re: The Problem with Programming
- From: "Mark V." <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:16:46 -0500
"Ingvar Nilsen" <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tony Bryer wrote:
As someone who has never worked in a team of more than one, I had
picked up the impression that superstar programmers can be a mixed
blessing in a team situation.
Yes. At a management session, Borcon 2004, the speaker advised us to
"hire mediocre developers for production work" (I don't remember the
exact words).
The speaker sounds like a mediocre manager to me. IMHO, mediocre management
is the number one problem in the industry. After years of writing books on
the topic of software engineering, Tom DeMarco came to the conclusion that
most talented professionals already knew; namely, a good manager hires the
very best people and does what it takes to keep them on his/her team. A
software development process is not a substitute for talent. An alpha
developer is ten to one hundred times more productive than his/her non-alpha
brethren. He/she produces fewer defects, and he/she also tends to produce
less code for any given problem. As the total lifecycle cost of a
system/product is generally proportionate to the number of lines of code it
contains, a smaller code base is almost always more cost effective.
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