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What is the collective
noun for developers?
Camille Baldock, @camille_
Bacon 2014 - What is the collective noun for developers?
Collective nouns
are amazing
!
hummingbirds
Bouquet
hummingbirds
of
鍖a馨庄稼乙看艶壊
Flamboyance
鍖a馨庄稼乙看艶壊
of
!
crows
Murder
crows
of
starlings
Murmuration
starlings
of
Bacon 2014 - What is the collective noun for developers?
______ of
developers
array of
developers
scrum of
developers
bikeshed of
developers
Phil Karlton
Only 2 hard things in computer science:
cache invalidation
and
naming things
Phil Karlton
Only 2 hard things in computer science:
cache invalidation
and
naming things
hanging out in
libraries
maths!
humans are
complicated
complex
vs
complicated
Bacon 2014 - What is the collective noun for developers?
developers
activity
developers
in the wild
movement
They always travel
in groups of 鍖ve,
these programmers
Bacon 2014 - What is the collective noun for developers?
information transfer
growing
making decisions
information
transfer
honey bees
wasps
social network
analysis
200 most popular repositories
!
All pull request and issue comments, who
interacted with who
Most senior contributors interact less with
newcomers than mid-level contributors
nest
destruction
bike
colony
of wasps
growing
positive
feedback
200 most popular repositories
!
All comments, measure positivity
great, awesome, thanks
!
More feedback
!
More growing
More positive feedback
!
Even more growing
making
decisions
200 most popular repositories
!
200 repositories with most collaborators
200 most popular repositories
!
people involved in each change
Condorcet
many wrongs
More collaborators?
More collaboration
per change!
swarm
intrusion of cockroaches
What are animals
doing better than us?
groupthink
collect independently
!
come back to group
The organisation should
set up several independent
groups, working on the
same problem.
Leaders should absent
themselves from many of the
group meetings to avoid
excessively in鍖uencing the
outcome.
anternet
nest
destruction
bike
colony
of wasps
swarm
intrusion of cockroaches
@camille_ your,votes,here
@camille_ superbikeshed,swarm
@camille_ superbikeshed,swarm
What is the collective
noun for developers?

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