The 10x developer is NOT a myth

The 10x developer is NOT a myth

Sunday, September 29, 2013 Last night, I tweeted the following: I'm confused by the claim that "10x" or "rockstar developers" are a myth. Are star athletes, artists, writers, and, uh, rock stars, a myth? I got tons of replies and questions, but Twitter is an awful medium for discussion, so I'm writing this blog post as a follow-up. There have been a bunch of articles  that claim that 10x developer doesn't exist. The arguments against it generally fall into 3 buckets: The original 10x number came from a single study (Sackman, Erikson, and Grant (1968)) that was flawed. Productivity is a fuzzy thing that's very hard to measure, so we can't make any claims like 10x. There is a distribution of talent, but there is no way a single engineer could do the work of 10. I disagree with all of these. Let's go through the arguments one by one.  It's not one study Although armchair scientists on Twitter and Hacker News love to shoot down peer-reviewed studies,

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