> Professional talent does vary, but there is not a shred of evidence that the best professional developers are an order of magnitude more productive than median developers at any timescale, much less on a meaningful timescale such as that of a product release cycle. There is abundant evidence that this is not the case
Depends on the suitation when I worled for BT another devloper and I developed in a month in a RAD/DSDM web project project what another part of the biz had quoted 2 years to develop.
But we did have a depty CEO (Bruce Bond) as a sponsor so stuff got done quickly.
I reccon in my entire period working at BT that month was most prodcutive - and thats including the time I spent a coupel of days sorting out a BACS trasfer that netted 3/4 mill.
http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2011/12/09/forbes-is-wrong-...
> The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheMythOfTheRockstarProgrammer...