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WHAT IF PROGRAMMERS WERE TREATED LIKE JOCKS? by Bill Curtis

Demand is greater than available talent. Talent differences translate into large performance differences. Performance differences determine results that have large economic consequences.

THE "ROMAN EVALUATION" AND OTHER TECHNIQUES FOR HIRING THE GREATEST DEVELOPERS by Luke Hohmann

Throughout my career, I've heard the rhetoric that companies always want to hire the very best developers. I don't believe it.

RECOGNIZING ACHIEVEMENTS GREAT AND SMALL by Karl E. Wiegers

Adapted from Karl E. Wiegers, Creating a Software Engineering Culture (pp. 3544). Copyright 1996 by Karl E. Wiegers. Used by permission of Dorset House Publishing, 353 W.

KNOWLEDGE WORKERS AND THE NEW EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT by Robert D. Austin

If we are to believe much of the popular business press, something has permanently changed in the relationship between workers and their employers in the 1990s.


Power, Politics, and the Software Process Watts Humphrey

This article is an excerpt from the author's new book, Managing Technical People -- Innovation, Teamwork, and the Software Process (Addison-Wesley, 1996).