The STUPID MYTH Of Genius Software Developers

Опубликовано: 10 Октябрь 2024
на канале: Continuous Delivery

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It is a common complaint that “we’d practice CD, DevOps, TDD, BDD, do a better job of design and build better software faster, but our team isn’t good enough” but the data says this is wrong. This goes beyond how to spot bad software teams and is more in the realm of myths about software engineering. Sure you need to be smart to build great software, but it is also true that a bad process will limit the effectiveness of the best people every time. Netflix CTO Adrian Cockroft used to be asked "Where do you get your wonderful developers?" and used to answer “We got them from you, and then got out of their way”. How we work is a stronger predictor of success than who is on the team - a finding that debunks software myths, and was repeated recently by Google research into over 180 of their teams.

So if culture and team approach is more important than teams of geniuses, how do we change culture and team approach? In this episode, Dave Farley explores this idea and talks about the specific techniques that make the change in culture that can make a difference in results possible.

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🔗 LINKS:

“How to Build the Perfect Team” ➡️ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/ma...

“NUMMI History” ➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

“Lessons from NUMMI” ➡️ / worst-to-best-lessons-from-nummi

“DevOps Culture”, John Willis ➡️ https://itrevolution.com/articles/dev...

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