Ten years of experience did not outperform two years of experience in the Coding War Games, except that participants with less than six months of experience in the exercise language performed worse than the rest.

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

"Ten years of experience did not outperform two years of experience in the Coding War Games, except that participants with less than six months of experience in the exercise language performed worse than the rest."

DeMarco and Lister found little or no relationship between years of experience and benchmark performance beyond the disadvantage for people very new to the language used.

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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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