Challenging the Myth of the 10x Programmer
• Podcast
Publisher
Software Engineering Institute
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Abstract
A pervasive belief in software engineering is that some programmers are much better than others (the times-10, or 10x, programmer), and that the skills, abilities, and talents of these programmers exert an outsized influence on that organizations' success or failure. In this podcast, Bill Nichols, a researcher in the SEI Software Solutions Division, examines the veracity and relevance of this widely held notion.
About the Speaker
Bill Nichols
William "Bill" Nichols joined the SEI in 2006 as a senior member of the technical staff and served as a Personal Software Process (PSP) instructor and Team Software Process (TSP) coach. Before joining the SEI, Nichols led a software-development team at the Bettis Laboratory near Pittsburgh, where he had been …
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