October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 39m
English
As strong as our national cultures can be, it might be the case that the software development subculture is even stronger. Professor Erran Carmel, who has studied distributed teams for years, wrote about this phenomenon.
Software professionals worldwide belong to the computer subculture. Software guru Larry Constantine argues that the computer subculture is stronger than national culture and that the programmer in Moscow is more similar to his American programming peer than to other Russians. Engineers, like software professionals, place high value on achievement and relatively low value on social relationships. The stereotype of the antisocial programmer has a kernel of truth. (1998, 73–74)
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