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In late 2019, Bill Nichols, a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University with the Software Engineering Institute published his study on "the 10x developer myth." On this show we talk with Bill about all the details of his research. Is the 10x developer a myth? Let's find out.
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