Larger scale software development is best done as a collaborative effort. The essence of that is the "co". Literally working together. How is this best done?
We have the idea that leaders make this happen, but as the top comment says, this post is about "cult of personality". Not "cult of community". It has been a common theme that startups have much higher velocity, and great lament that this velocity is lost as startups grow in size. This has led to the great myth of the mythical person month - that adding people to a software project slows it down.
It is not the addition of people, it is the destruction of community that slows things down. Think of a bee hive. We want more honey, so we get another hive of bees and dump them into the first hive. Is this an effective solution?
The bumbling around on this simple and elegant truth is both tragic and comedic. If software development is most efficient and effective when it is a community effort, then one must look into what makes for effective communities, eh?
We seem to live in a cult of personality time - not just in software (ahem). The solution is simply to build effective communities. This article is an anti-pattern for that. In my opinion.
We have the idea that leaders make this happen, but as the top comment says, this post is about "cult of personality". Not "cult of community". It has been a common theme that startups have much higher velocity, and great lament that this velocity is lost as startups grow in size. This has led to the great myth of the mythical person month - that adding people to a software project slows it down.
It is not the addition of people, it is the destruction of community that slows things down. Think of a bee hive. We want more honey, so we get another hive of bees and dump them into the first hive. Is this an effective solution?
The bumbling around on this simple and elegant truth is both tragic and comedic. If software development is most efficient and effective when it is a community effort, then one must look into what makes for effective communities, eh?
We seem to live in a cult of personality time - not just in software (ahem). The solution is simply to build effective communities. This article is an anti-pattern for that. In my opinion.