Numerous studies have found 10:1 differences in productivity and quality among individuals and even among teams. This blog contains Steve McConnell's thoughts about how to move toward the "10" side of that 10:1 ratio. Add to Technorati Favorites
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My last couple of posts on productivity variations among programmers and the Chief Programmer Team model gave rise to some discussion about hazards of measuring software productivity at the individual programmer level. Software engineering studies normally measure productivity in terms of time to complete...
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One spinoff from the 10x difference in programmer productivity was the Chief Programmer Team structure. The idea of the chief-programmer team was originally developed at IBM during the late 1960s (Baker 1972, Baker and Mills 1973). It was popularized by Fred Brooks in the Mythical Man-Month (Brooks 1975...
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Some blog readers have asked for more background on where the "10x" name of this blog cam from. The gist of the name is that researchers have found 10-fold differences in productivity and quality between different programmers with the same levels of experience and also between different teams...
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A reader of one of my books asked this question: What is the impact of an improvement in response time on increased throughput? I develop many systems, and some have instantaneous response times, some have 10 minute response times, others have 4 or 5 hour response times. What are the threshholds at which...
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