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The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
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The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition

by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
Topic 49
Pragmatic Teams

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.

The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985

Even in 1985, the joke about herding cats was getting old. By the time of the first edition at the turn of the century, it was positively ancient. Yet it persists, because it has a ring of truth to it. Programmers are a bit like cats: intelligent, strong willed, opinionated, independent, and often worshiped by the net.

So far in this book we've looked at pragmatic techniques that help an individual be a better programmer. Can these methods work for teams as well, even for teams of strong-willed, independent people? The answer is a resounding “yes!'' There are ...

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