Skills. Language Proficiency. Conscious Competence. Chris Argyris. Dreyfus model. Experiental learning. Shuhari. How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner. Beyond the Dead Sea: When Good Software Groups Go Bad I recently posted what turned out to be a pretty popular post called “How to Keep Your Best Programmers,” in which I described what most skilled programmers tend to want in a job and why they leave if they don’t get it.
Today, I’d like to make a post that works toward a focus on the software group at an organization rather than on the individual journeys of developers as they move within or among organizations.