Makes me happy that getting rid of stack ranking allows small elite teams to now be functional.
Before, everyone would've been stepping on each others' toes because only two out of ten people would always be rated top performers and two more would be forced onto "performance improvement plans" (aka "you're about to get fired").
"co-author of the influential software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. He co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework with Kent Beck and led the design of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools (JDT)"
And here's me writing code that creates csv files, that get copied from one server to another server (on another continent) - without anyone reading them.
