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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS You Are Not Your Last Commit

"Who a programmer’s competition pair mate was strongly associated with benchmark performance in the Coding War Games."

DeMarco and Lister report that strong performers tended to be paired with strong performers, slow performers with slow performers, and the average competing pair differed by only 21 percent.

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Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition
Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister
Source year 2013
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Importance high
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