Rockstar Developers Are THE WORST Developers • Dave Farley • GOTO 2023

We’re so pleased to having teamed up with Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and frequent GOTO Conferences speaker, for a monthly video series featuring ideas about continuous delivery, DevOps, test-driven development, BDD, software engineering and software development in general. Find plenty more from Dave on his @ModernSoftwareEngineeringYT channel. Dave Farley - Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer, Award-winning Author, Founder & Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd. RESOURCES https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-myth-of-the-rockstar-programmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Belbin https://www.belbin.com/about/belbin-team-roles https://www.belbin.com/media/2565/belbin-project-aristotle-article-teams-teamwork-google-september-2019.pdf Dave https://twitter.com/davefarley77 https://linkedin.com/in/dave-farley-a67927 http://www.continuous-delivery.co.uk http://www.davefarley.net ABSTRACT Are you a rockstar developer, or do you want to be? Is being a rockstar a good idea or a bad one? What does it take to do great work in software development, does it take rockstar developers or just good habits? The idea of the developer rockstar is mostly a creation of the recruitment industry to appeal to the best developers, but in reality, this is not a great model for delivering great software and comes with lots of problems. It also goes against what Google and others have found about what it takes to create great software. In this episode Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” unpicks the idea of “Rockstar developers” and compares them to how effective, high-performing, teams work. CD TRAINING COURSES If you want to learn Continuous Delivery and DevOps skills, check out Dave Farley's courses https://bit.ly/DFTraining RECOMMENDED BOOKS & LINKS You can grab Dave Farley's new book 'Continuous Delivery Pipelines' here: https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate • https://amzn.to/367RI5o https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #GOTOxDaveFarley #Scale #Programming #DaveFarley #GOTO #GOTOcon #ContinuousDelivery #Complexity #ProgrammingTutorial #SoftwareEngineering #RockstarProgrammers Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1